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Title: Making the Second Ghetto (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History S.) by Arnold R. Hirsch ISBN: 0-521-31506-9 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Racism + Capitalism = Public Housing in Chicago
Comment: Excellent review of how the Chicago Housing Authority, despite good intentions, ended up not only itself segregated, but reinforced existing housing segregation in the private market.
Hirsch actually takes a much broader view of his subject than public housing. Rather, he exp;ores the various ways public policy was manipulated (generally by commercial interests) to serve their own ends, and how those profit driven manipulations resulted in Chicago being one of America's most segregated cities. Ironically, the dramatic expansion of the Black Ghetto chronicalled by Hirsch occurred at the same time that the country was under seige by the forces of McCarthism...yet in Chicago, the commercial interests (lead by Marshall Field) had no compunction about seizing private property to serve their own ends.
Anyone who believes that neighborhoods are segregated because of private choices must read this book and learn the truth.
Rating: 5
Summary: the deception of public housing
Comment: After reading The Hidden War,(which made extensive reference to Hirsch's book)I wanted a more detailed history about the creation of public housing as we know it to be in Chicago. This book gives detail of how the political,educational, civic organizations wanted to contain the burgeoning African American community which was growing during post world war II and the great migration years. The powerful in Chicago used government policies to maintain housing segregation...the powerless resorted to violence to keep African Americans out of neighborhoods...the results were the massive and bleak housing structures which are called public housing. This book not only talks about the historical wheelings and dealings of the white power structure, but it also gives insight into how the same tactics are being used today, to maintain certain class and racial segregation. This is a good companion must read along with The Hidden WARS.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-written historical account
Comment: I had to read this book for a college history class I took 2 years ago and I felt that it was extremely detailed and informative. I was quite surprised by my reaction because I felt it was a great read whether or not you enjoy historical books.
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Title: The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue ISBN: 0691058881 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson ISBN: 0195049837 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, Kristin M. Szylvian ISBN: 027102013X Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton ISBN: 0674018214 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: No Shame in My Game : The Working Poor in the Inner City by KATHERINE S. NEWMAN ISBN: 0375703799 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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