Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the CityUniversity of Chicago Press, 2 kwi 2010 - 400 In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood–Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. There was a time when North Kenwood–Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously black neighborhood that continues to flourish today. But theirs is not a tale of easy consensus and political unity, and here Pattillo teases out the divergent class interests that have come to define black communities like North Kenwood–Oakland. She explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers as they clash over the social implications of gentrification. Along the way, Pattillo highlights the conflicted but crucial role that middle-class blacks play in transforming such districts as they negotiate between established centers of white economic and political power and the needs of their less fortunate black neighbors. “A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one.”—Chicago Reader “To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows . . . turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block.”—Boston Globe |
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... Park Avenue; lawyer Melville Fuller, who went on to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had a home built at 3600 Lake Park; John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field & Company, lived in two different North Kenwood homes, at ...
... Park Avenue; lawyer Melville Fuller, who went on to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had a home built at 3600 Lake Park; John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field & Company, lived in two different North Kenwood homes, at ...
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... Park and Kenwood,” maybe even the unknown tenants of 4432, given that they lived next door. The defense called several character witnesses for Mrs. Hall, whom the newspaper described as “an honest-looking servant of the better class ...
... Park and Kenwood,” maybe even the unknown tenants of 4432, given that they lived next door. The defense called several character witnesses for Mrs. Hall, whom the newspaper described as “an honest-looking servant of the better class ...
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... Park Lodge #915 and secretary of the Woodlawn Chapter. During the Donovans' tenure in 4432 Berkeley, Roy Donovan (who died in 1947), his first wife Una, and his second wife Genevra (who stayed in the house until 1952) were witnesses to ...
... Park Lodge #915 and secretary of the Woodlawn Chapter. During the Donovans' tenure in 4432 Berkeley, Roy Donovan (who died in 1947), his first wife Una, and his second wife Genevra (who stayed in the house until 1952) were witnesses to ...
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... Park, Woodlawn, and Washington Park, along its periphery, were actively preparing to resist what was seen as a racial invasion. The violence of the 1919 riots was but an intensified version of the animosities that seethed daily in these ...
... Park, Woodlawn, and Washington Park, along its periphery, were actively preparing to resist what was seen as a racial invasion. The violence of the 1919 riots was but an intensified version of the animosities that seethed daily in these ...
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... Park white.” Its 1919 publication the Property Owners' Journal minced no words in stating the organization's position and outlining its plans to address the growing black presence in greater Hyde Park: Keep the Negro in his place ...
... Park white.” Its 1919 publication the Property Owners' Journal minced no words in stating the organization's position and outlining its plans to address the growing black presence in greater Hyde Park: Keep the Negro in his place ...
Spis treści
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2 The Black Bourgeoisie Meets the Truly Disadvantaged | 81 |
3 White Power Black Brokers | 113 |
4 Remedies to Educational Malpractice | 149 |
5 The Case against Public Housing | 181 |
6 The Case for Public Housing | 217 |
7 Avenging Violence with Violence | 259 |
Conclusion | 297 |
Notes | 309 |
References | 349 |
Index | 371 |
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Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City Mary Pattillo Ograniczony podgląd - 2010 |
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City Mary Pattillo Podgląd niedostępny - 2008 |
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City Mary Pattillo Podgląd niedostępny - 2007 |
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