9780226342443-0226342441-Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

ISBN-13: 9780226342443
ISBN-10: 0226342441
Edition: 59183rd
Author: Arnold R. Hirsch
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 382 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226342443
ISBN-10: 0226342441
Edition: 59183rd
Author: Arnold R. Hirsch
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 382 pages

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America) (ISBN-13: 9780226342443 and ISBN-10: 0226342441), written by authors Arnold R. Hirsch, was published by The University of Chicago Press in 1998. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, Housing & Urban Development, Administrative Law, Urban Planning & Development, Social Sciences, Rural, Sociology, Urban, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles waged on Chicago's South Side. His chronicle of the strategies used by ethnic, political, and business interests in reaction to the great migration of southern blacks in the 1940s describes how the violent reaction of an emergent "white" population combined with public policy to segregate the city.

"In this excellent, intricate, and meticulously researched study, Hirsch exposes the social engineering of the post-war ghetto."—Roma Barnes, Journal of American Studies

"According to Arnold Hirsch, Chicago's postwar housing projects were a colossal exercise in moral deception. . . . [An] excellent study of public policy gone astray."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune

"An informative and provocative account of critical aspects of the process in [Chicago]. . . . A good and useful book."—Zane Miller, Reviews in American History

"A valuable and important book."—Allan Spear, Journal of American History

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