Fear Thy Neighbor: Blockbusting and White Flight in 1960's Chicago - Softcover

Reynolds, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149217565X ISBN 13: 9781492175650

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

“If anybody who is well established in this business isn’t making a hundred thousand dollars a year, he is loafing,” journalist Alfred Balk wrote in the “Saturday Evening Post” in July of 1962. Balk, quoting one of over 100 Chicago real-estate speculators to whom he had assigned the pseudonym, “Norris Vitchek,” was describing a practice that would eventually help transform the South and West sides of Chicago in the 1960’s from a group of white, middle-class and working-class neighborhoods in 1959 to one large predominantly African-American ghetto in 1970. It was a transformation of these neighborhoods from comfort to poverty, prosperity to blight, and from peaceful, separate coexistence to open racial warfare.

Biografía del autor:

Born and raised in the Chicago of the 1960's, Mike Reynolds teaches American History and Media Studies in various towns in Connecticut. He specializes in American Urban life in the 20th Century. His previous books include "The New Girl", (2003), published by America House Books in Baltimore, and "Reaching 'Out'", published by Double-Dragon Press in Toronto. "Fear Thy Neighbor" is Reynolds' first historical monograph.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 149217565X
• ISBN 13: 9781492175650
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32