Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America by Beryl Satter

Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America

Beryl Satter

528 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nationThe "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated ci...

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