A01=Allan H. Spear
african american
Author_Allan H. Spear
black
blues
business
Category=JBSL
Category=NHK
chicago
community
crime
discrimination
education
employment
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eq_society-politics
ghetto
great migration
history
housing
illinois
injustice
inner city
jim crow
labor
nonfiction
north
politics
poverty
prejudice
race
recreation
segregation
self sufficiency
social justice
sociology
south side
systemic racism
urban
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780226768571
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 13 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 1969
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination. This is the first historical study of the ghetto made famous by the sociological classics of St. Clair Drake, E. Franklin Frazier, and others—by the novels of Richard Wright, and by countless blues songs. It was this ghetto that Martin Luther King, Jr., chose to focus on when he turned attention to the racial injustices of the North. Spear, by his objective treatment of the results of white racism, gives an effective, timely reminder of the serious urban problems that are the legacy of prejudice.
