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Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side
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Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Amanda I. Seligman


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In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in these areas began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. And ultimately, the riots that erupted on Chicago's West Side and across the country in the mid-1960s stemmed not only from the tribulations specific to blacks in urban centers but also from the legacy of accumulated neglect after decades of white occupancy. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the flight of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.

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In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman examines the responses of whites in the West Side communities of Chicago to the racial transformation occurring in their neighborhoods in the decades following World War II. Seligman's account illuminates that deterioration in these areas in fact began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. This book is essential to understanding how the flight of whites to the suburbs, and even the 1960s riots, were responses to developments in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time. Seligman's deeply researched and well-focused study of race and residence in postwar Chicago usefully stretches the discussion in three directions. Geographically, she provides a real service by concentrating on the city's understudied West Side. Second, she carries the story down to the mid-1970s, significantly extending our field of vision. Finally, she removes the housing issue from its traditional policy vacuum. These are all welcome developments that will generate questions to engage scholars for years to come.--Arnold R. Hirsch, author of Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 A fascinating account of Chicago's West Side in the postwar era. Based on a wide range of sources Block by Block tells the story of a city in flux and residents trying to cope with changes occurring all around them. The emergence of a West Side ghetto is seen within the very real national and local political limits of the Daley era.Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side> A creative reinterpretation of the postwar urban crisis, Seligman's book challenges the one-dimensional portrait of Chicago's West Side. Her multiplicity of stories and experiences makes this a very rich urban history. Original and useful, Block by Block is an important contribution to postwar urban historiography.My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965>

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  • Title Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side
  • Author Amanda I. Seligman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date May 10, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226746630 / 0226746631
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.46 x 0.95 in (23.57 x 16.41 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Library of Congress subjects Chicago (Ill.) - Race relations - History -, Chicago (Ill.) - Social conditions - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004016543
  • Dewey Decimal Code 977.311

About the author

Amanda I. Seligman is assistant professor of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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