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Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
Contributor(s): Pattillo, Mary (Author)

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 ISBN: 0226649326     ISBN-13: 9780226649320
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE: $29.40  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.08" W x 8.86" L (1.33 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Locality - Chicago, Illinois
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.
There was a time when North Kenwood-Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously black neighborhood that continues to flourish today. But theirs is not a tale of easy consensus and political unity, and here Pattillo teases out the divergent class interests that have come to define black communities like North Kenwood-Oakland. She explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers as they clash over the social implications of gentrification. Along the way, Pattillo highlights the conflicted but crucial role that middle-class blacks play in transforming such districts as they negotiate between established centers of white economic and political power and the needs of their less fortunate black neighbors. "A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one."--Chicago Reader

"To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows . . . turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block."--Boston Globe

Contributor Bio(s): Pattillo, Mary: -

Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration.
 
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