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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... Conservation Community Council. Such agenda items almost always reopen the debate over the optimal socioeconomic mix for the neighborhood, and over the integration of poor families with their new neighbors, who have paid a pretty penny ...
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... Conservation Community Council, I took detailed minutes of its meetings. I obtained all council minutes and correspondences that predated my research through a Freedom of Information Act request to the city's Department of Planning and ...
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... conservation plan of 1990 , I chronicle the weddings , the vacations , the improvement associa- tions , the schools , the racial covenants , the music , and the murders in the neighborhood . This biography of one house previews how ...
... conservation plan of 1990 , I chronicle the weddings , the vacations , the improvement associa- tions , the schools , the racial covenants , the music , and the murders in the neighborhood . This biography of one house previews how ...
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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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