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

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Chicago on the Make

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

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Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, 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 truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar 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 the stark inequalities that ravage the city today. 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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780520286481
ISBN10 0520286480
Number Of Pages 440
Item Weight 726 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Publisher / Reseller University of California Press
Format hardback
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"Diamond skillfully weaves together economics, politics, and culture. . . .  Wonderful, meticulously researched." * Choice *
"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 Book Review *
“One of its defining features is that it centers on Chicago’s history of racial conflict, tracing how the city’s transformation into a global metropolis systemically excluded blacks and perpetuated inequality.” * New York Times *
"Readers who are unfamiliar with the myriad facets of Chicago politics and development will be richly rewarded by the account presented here." * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *
"Diamond stakes out a passionate critique of the political sources of injustice in Chicago, which should frame the debate over the city’s rebirth for some time to come." * American Historical Review *

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Author's Bio

Andrew J. Diamond is Professor of American Civilization at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he directs the Center for the Study of Politics and Society in the Anglophone World. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on race and politics in urban America, including Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969.

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