The Resource Family properties : How the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America, Beryl Satter
Family properties : How the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America, Beryl Satter
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- Summary
- Part family story and part urban history, this work is a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago, and in cities across the nation. 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 and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this book, the author identifies the true causes of the city's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country. It is not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. This is an account of a city in crisis; unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers, the author's father, Mark J. Satter. At the heart of the struggle stand the black migrants who, having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping, suddenly find themselves caught in a new kind of debt peonage. The author shows the interlocking forces at work in their oppression: the discriminatory practices of the banking industry; the federal policies that created the country's shameful "dual housing market" ; the economic anxieties that fueled white violence; and the tempting profits to be made by preying on the city's most vulnerable population. This tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America.--[Provided by publisher.]
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Extent
- [xi], 495 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Contents
-
- The story of my father
- Jewish Lawndale
- The noose around Black Chicago
- Justice in Chicago
- Reform--Illinois-style
- The liberal moment and the death of a radical
- King in Chicago
- The story of a building
- Organizing Lawndale
- The big holdout
- The federal trials
- Isbn
- 9780805091427
- Label
- Family properties : How the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America
- Title
- Family properties
- Title remainder
- How the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America
- Statement of responsibility
- Beryl Satter
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Housing
- African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Relations with Jews
- African Americans -- Relations with Jews
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Biography
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Chicago <Ill.>
- Discriminatie (sociologie)
- Discrimination in housing
- Discrimination in housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Housing policy
- Housing policy -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Illinois -- Chicago
- Landlords
- Landlords -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
- Lawyers
- Lawyers -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
- Race relations
- Rassendiskriminierung
- Satter, Mark J, 1916-1965
- Satter, Mark J, 1916-1965
- Schwarze
- Social conditions
- Sociale aspecten
- Verenigde Staten
- Wohnungspolitik
- Zwarten
- Huisvesting
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Part family story and part urban history, this work is a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago, and in cities across the nation. 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 and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this book, the author identifies the true causes of the city's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country. It is not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. This is an account of a city in crisis; unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers, the author's father, Mark J. Satter. At the heart of the struggle stand the black migrants who, having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping, suddenly find themselves caught in a new kind of debt peonage. The author shows the interlocking forces at work in their oppression: the discriminatory practices of the banking industry; the federal policies that created the country's shameful "dual housing market" ; the economic anxieties that fueled white violence; and the tempting profits to be made by preying on the city's most vulnerable population. This tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America.--[Provided by publisher.]
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Satter, Beryl
- Dewey number
- 363.5/9996073077311
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD7288.76.U52
- LC item number
- C434 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Satter, Mark J
- Satter, Mark J
- African Americans
- Discrimination in housing
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Housing policy
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Lawyers
- Landlords
- Zwarten
- Huisvesting
- Discriminatie (sociologie)
- Sociale aspecten
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Verenigde Staten
- Rassendiskriminierung
- Wohnungspolitik
- Schwarze
- Chicago <Ill.>
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Discrimination in housing
- Housing policy
- Landlords
- Lawyers
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Illinois
- Label
- Family properties : How the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America, Beryl Satter
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-470) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The story of my father -- Jewish Lawndale -- The noose around Black Chicago -- Justice in Chicago -- Reform--Illinois-style -- The liberal moment and the death of a radical -- King in Chicago -- The story of a building -- Organizing Lawndale -- The big holdout -- The federal trials
- Control code
- ocn237018885
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Extent
- [xi], 495 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780805091427
- Lccn
- 2008033005
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780805091427
- (OCoLC)237018885
- Label
- Family properties : How the struggle over race and real estate transformed Chicago and urban America, Beryl Satter
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-470) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The story of my father -- Jewish Lawndale -- The noose around Black Chicago -- Justice in Chicago -- Reform--Illinois-style -- The liberal moment and the death of a radical -- King in Chicago -- The story of a building -- Organizing Lawndale -- The big holdout -- The federal trials
- Control code
- ocn237018885
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Extent
- [xi], 495 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780805091427
- Lccn
- 2008033005
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780805091427
- (OCoLC)237018885
Subject
- African Americans -- Housing
- African Americans -- Housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Relations with Jews
- African Americans -- Relations with Jews
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Biography
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Chicago <Ill.>
- Discriminatie (sociologie)
- Discrimination in housing
- Discrimination in housing -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Housing policy
- Housing policy -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Illinois -- Chicago
- Landlords
- Landlords -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
- Lawyers
- Lawyers -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
- Race relations
- Rassendiskriminierung
- Satter, Mark J, 1916-1965
- Satter, Mark J, 1916-1965
- Schwarze
- Social conditions
- Sociale aspecten
- Verenigde Staten
- Wohnungspolitik
- Zwarten
- Huisvesting
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