Bibliograph

Uptown, poor whites in Chicago, Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander ; photographs by the authors

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Uptown, poor whites in Chicago, Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander ; photographs by the authors

Language

eng

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Uptown

Oclc number

96088

Responsibility statement

Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander ; photographs by the authors

Sub title

poor whites in Chicago

Summary

Explores the area just off Chicago's Gold Coast, where live poor whites from Appalachia and the South. Describes the organization of a neighborhood group--JOIN--to fight gouging by landlords and merchants, the atrocities of the welfare system, the callousness of the local hospitals, and especially the brutality and corruption of Chicago police

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