Family Properties How the Struggle over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America

Name: Family Properties How the Struggle over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
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ISBN: 9780805091427

ISBN-10: 0805091424

ISBN-13: 9780805091427

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Authors: Beryl Satter

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"Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North."David Garrow,The Washington PostThe "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true cause of the city's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: a widespread institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation.Part family story and part urban history,Family Propertiesis the riveting account of a city in crisis,…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 3/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.27" wide x 9.28" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Beryl Satter is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.



Introduction: The Story of My Father






Jewish Lawndale



The Noose around Black Chicago



Justice in Chicago



Reform-Illinois-Style



The Liberal Moment and the Death of a Radical






King in Chicago



The Story of a Building



Organizing Lawndale



The Big Holdout



The Federal Trials


Conclusion


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index