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

Cooley, Will

 
9780875807874: Moving Up, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0875807879 ISBN 13 : 9780875807874
Editeur : Northern Illinois University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Northern Illinois University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0875807879
ISBN 13 
9780875807874
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
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Personne responsable
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