Moving Up, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago - Brossura

Cooley, Will

 
9780875807874: Moving Up, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
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ISBN 10: 0875807879 ISBN 13: 9780875807874
Casa editrice: Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2018

Sinossi

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare.

While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream. Black Chicagoans demonstrated their talent and ambitions, but they entered through the narrow gate, and whites denied them equal opportunities in the educational institutions, workplaces, and neighborhoods that produced the middle class. African Americans resisted these restrictions at nearly every turn by moving up into better careers and moving out into higher-quality neighborhoods, but their continued marginalization helped create a deeply dysfunctional city.

African Americans settled in Chicago for decades, inspired by the gains their forerunners were making in the city. Though faith in Chicago as a land of promise wavered, the progress of the black middle class kept the city from completely falling apart. In this important study, Cooley shows how Chicago, in all of its glory and faults, was held together by black dreams of advancement. Moving Up, Moving Out will appeal to urban historians and sociologists, scholars of African American studies, and general readers interested in Chicago and urban history.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Will Cooley is professor of history at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.
 


Will Cooley is community faculty at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota.

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Editore
Northern Illinois Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0875807879
ISBN 13 
9780875807874
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
183
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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