Racial democracy and the black metropolis [electronic resource] : housing policy in postwar Chicago / Preston H. Smith II.

9781452945811 (ebook) :

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

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This study examines housing debates in Chicago that go beyond black and white politics, and shows how class and factional conflicts among African Americans actually helped to reproduce stunning segregation along economic lines. Class and factional conflicts were normal in the rough-and-tumble world of land use politics. They are, however, often not visible in accounts of the postwar fight against segregation. The book details how black civic leaders fought racial discrimination in ways that promoted - or at least did not sacrifice - their class interests in housing and real estate struggles.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.