Chicago on the make
Subtitle: power and inequality in a modern city
By: Andrew J. Diamond
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780520286481; 9780520286498
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; History
Description: "Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar narrative that Chicago's autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created the stark inequalities that ravage the city today. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling Chicago's deeply entrenched social and urban problems as the city ascended to the national stage during the Obama years"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Capital order; title: Black metropolis; title: White and black; title: The boss and the black belt; title: Civil rights in the multiracial city; title: Violence in the global city; title: A city of two tales.