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

Hirsch, Arnold R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226342441 ISBN 13: 9780226342443

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

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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Review:

' ... this excellent book . Hirsch has succeeded admirably in showing how racial conflict and government intervention recreated the black ghetto in postwar Chicago.' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226342441
• ISBN 13: 9780226342443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382