Family properties: how the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America

The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true cause of the city's slums and the ruin of urban neighborhood...

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1. Verfasser: Satter, Beryl 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Picador [2009]
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Zusammenfassung:The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true cause of the city's slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not white flight or black culture but a widespread system of legal and financial exploitation. Part family story and part urban history, Family Properties is the riveting account of a city in crisis, involving slumlords and speculators pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney--the author's father--who launched a crusade against the profiteers. Satter shows the interlocking forces at work: the discriminatory banking industry, the federal policies that created the country's shameful "dual housing market," the economic anxieties that fueled white violence, and the profits to be made by preying on the city's most vulnerable population. A monumental work on race and real estate, Family Properties will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America. -- Description from back cover
Beschreibung:A Metropolitan book
Originally published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company as Family properties: race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America
Beschreibung:495 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 24 cm
ISBN:9780805091427

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