Making the second ghetto
Subtitle: race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
By: Arnold R. Hirsch.
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Housing policy -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Discrimination in housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History.
Description: "Arnold Hirsch argues that in the postdepression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation and that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles on Chicago's South Side. In chronicling the strategies used by ethnic, political, and business interests threatened by the great migration of southern blacks in the 1940s, Hirsch reveals how the violent reaction of an emergent "white" population combined with public policy to segregate the city."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-348) and index.
Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983.