Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

"Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one...
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Author: Andrew J. Diamond
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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City by Diamond, Andrew J.

Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

$84.80

Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

$84.80
Author: Andrew J. Diamond
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one of America's most segregated cities. . . . A wealth of material."--New York Times

Winner of the 2017 Jon Gjerde Prize, Midwestern History Association

Winner of the 2017 Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society

Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a global urban center. Reinterpreting the narrative that Chicago's autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created stark inequalities. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling Chicago's deeply entrenched social and urban problems as the city ascended to the national stage during the Obama years.

Author: Andrew J. Diamond
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06/16/2020
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780520286498

About the Author
Andrew J. Diamond is Professor of American History at Sorbonne Université. He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books on the history of race, politics, and political culture in the urban United States, including Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969.


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