Block by Block Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side

Name: Block by Block Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side
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ISBN: 9780226746654

ISBN-10: 0226746658

ISBN-13: 9780226746654

Edition: 2005

Authors: Amanda I. Seligman

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In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In "Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Acronyms in Text


Introduction: Block by Block



Chicago's West Side



Housing Codes



Conservation and Urban Renewal



A Chicago Campus for the University of Illinois



Public Schools



Blockbusting



Keeping African Americans Out



Keeping Whites In


Epilogue: Reconsidering White Flight


Acronyms in notes


Archival Collections


Notes


Index