Download or read book The Pillars of Kedvale Avenue A Geography of a Chicago West Side Neighborhood in the 1960s written by Anthony Dzik and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geographical study of an urban village on Chicago's West Side in the 1960s. Book examines the social, commercial, and industrial geography of the neighborhood bounded by North Avenue, Pulaski Road, Chicago Avenue, and the Belt Line Railway (Kilpatrick Avenue).
Download or read book Block by Block written by Amanda I. Seligman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in these areas began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. And ultimately, the riots that erupted on Chicago's West Side and across the country in the mid-1960s stemmed not only from the tribulations specific to blacks in urban centers but also from the legacy of accumulated neglect after decades of white occupancy. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the "flight" of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.
Download or read book Not That Flat Physical Geography of Rugged Sedimentary Landscapes of the Great Plains written by Anthony J. Dzik and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think that the Great Plains are flat and uninspiring, this book will change that percept. Geographer Anthony Dzik presents some of the most awe-inspiring sedimentary landscapes of mid-continent North America. Here are the "canyonlands" of northwest Kansas, the rain pillars of Nebraska, the chalk pillars of the Cretaceous Sea, the Swiss cheese-like lumps of Montana's Medicine Rocks, the sparkling Gloss Mountains of Oklahoma, the "Grand Canyon of Texas," the badlands where Teddy Roosevelt rode the range, Hell's Half-Acre, and many other spectacular deviations from "flatness." In terminology familiar to professional natural scientists (but easily understood by laypersons), Dzik deftly describes the geologic, climatic, and biogeographic processes that fashioned the horizontal sedimentary strata into weird and wondrous landscapes. Over 150 full-color pictures, maps, and charts are part of the package. While not really a guidebook, driving directions and suggested hikes and scenic drives are provided for most locations discussed in the book.
Download or read book Chicago s Jewish West Side written by Irving Cutler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly half a century, the greater Lawndale area was the vibrant, spirited center of Jewish life in Chicago. It contained almost 40 percent of the city's entire Jewish population with over 70 synagogues and numerous active Jewish organizations and institutions. This book will bring back memories for those who lived there and retell the story of Jewish life on the West Side for those who did not.
Download or read book The World Is Always Coming to an End written by Carlo Rotella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a place of sociability and street life, but of privacy indoors and fearful distrust outdoors, is it still a neighborhood? In the late 1960s and 1970s Carlo Rotella grew up in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood—a place of neat bungalow blocks and desolate commercial strips, and sharp, sometimes painful social contrasts. In the decades since, the hollowing out of the middle class has left residents confronting—or avoiding—each other across an expanding gap that makes it ever harder for them to recognize each other as neighbors. Rotella tells the stories that reveal how that happened—stories of deindustrialization and street life; stories of gorgeous apartments with vistas onto Lake Michigan and of Section 8 housing vouchers held by the poor. At every turn, South Shore is a study in contrasts, shaped and reshaped over the past half-century by individual stories and larger waves of change that make it an exemplar of many American urban neighborhoods. Talking with current and former residents and looking carefully at the interactions of race and class, persistence and change, Rotella explores the tension between residents’ deep investment of feeling and resources in the physical landscape of South Shore and their hesitation to make a similar commitment to the community of neighbors living there. Blending journalism, memoir, and archival research, The World Is Always Coming to an End uses the story of one American neighborhood to challenge our assumptions about what neighborhoods are, and to think anew about what they might be if we can bridge gaps and commit anew to the people who share them with us. Tomorrow is another ending.
Download or read book Fragments of the West Side written by Charles A. Rini and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I consider myself lucky to have grown up on Racine Avenue in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago's near west side. It was the late 1940's, the beginning of an exciting new era and, in my opinion, the perfect place and time to be a kid. More and more families were buying their first TV, their first car and some of the lucky ones even were getting central heating, eliminating the need to pour fuel oil into the stoves used to heat their homes. Like many Italian families, ours was top heavy with aunts, uncles, cousins and close friends we considered as extended family. Whether it was Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter or the rare St. Joseph's Table, our house would be bursting at the seams with family and friends. Of course, being Italian, each holiday came with time-honored traditions which had to be followed to the letter. Dad, being a home movie fanatic, thoroughly documented these special times in his endless reels of 8 and 16 mm film. Dad was a worker for the Bureau of Sanitation in Chicago and was the bread winner in our family, but Ma was its heart. She cleaned, cooked, took care of us kids and kept Dad in-line, all while working a full time job. How she did it, I have no idea. As kids, our top priority was having fun. Whatever the season, we were outside as much as our parents and daylight would allow. We played hard and we played rough. Sure, we scraped our knees, got cuts, bloody noses and, on occasion, had to make a trip to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital to set a broken bone or, in my older brother's case, have his tongue sewn back on. We took all it in stride. If that was the price we had to pay, so be it. Schools back then had little tolerance for kids who acted up. There were rules to follow and we were expected to obey them. If one of us caused trouble, it was a guaranteed trip to the principal's office or, in some cases, getting suspended for a few days. Recently, I visited the various neighborhoods where I grew up on Chicago's west side. Memories of family, friends and events always come to mind but never as strong as they did when I visited Racine Avenue. Here they over-powered me and sent me back to my days as a kid in this wonderful, old neighborhood. After Dad got up in years, and wasn't able to drive anymore, he was always asking my brothers or me to take him back to his childhood home in Joliet, Illinois. When we would arrive he'd jump out of the car and a big smile would appear on his face. He'd then proceed to start showing my brothers and me all his old haunts. I used to wonder why visiting his old neighborhood in Joliet affected Dad the way it did. It has taken a lifetime, but now I think I understand. I finally decided I had to write a book detailing my life on Racine Avenue and the other neighborhoods we lived in. Each move meant leaving old friends, making new ones, starting new schools and a host of other challenges that seemed overwhelming. I can remember there were some great times and other times that weren't so great. However, in looking back, I wouldn't have changed it for the world.
Download or read book Men of Mendel written by Lauren D Chouinard and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the late 1960s on Chicago's south side. Neighborhoods in this part of the city are changing colors virtually overnight as African Americans and Hispanics move in great numbers from southern states to opportunities in the rust belt cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Racial tensions between whites and blacks increase sending many white families scurrying off to the surrounding suburbs. Gang activity spreads like a virus through the South and West Sides of the city as crime rates begin a decade-long march to unprecedented levels. Enrollment in private Catholic schools peaks before beginning a long, slow decline by the end of the century. This is the setting for Men of Mendel, a personal account of growing up in the inner-city in a time of social upheaval while attending one of Chicago's many, all-boys Catholic high schools. Men of Mendel is an often hilarious and sometimes irreverent recollection of life among the Augustinian Fathers. They had the unenviable task of providing a quality, "college preparatory" education to 1,000 postpubescent, mischievous boys, hell-bent on trying to outsmart them.This is not a work of fiction as all the crazy things that happened at the school took place exactly as recounted. If you are one of the many thousands of people who attended a parochial school, surely these tales with resonate with you. They will bring back memories of a time when corporal punishment at the hands of black-robed agents of God was viewed as a necessary evil in the proper education of Catholic children.
Download or read book West Side Girl written by Anita Solick Oswald and published by Anita Oswald. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita grew up in the 3rd story apartment above her family's Bohemian restaurant on Madison Street in Chicago's west side in the 50's and 60's. The daughter of a fireman and a housewife/frustrated writer, she befriended a ragtag brigade of children of immigrants and migrants. Together, they found both themselves and the world-at-large on their neighborhood's streets. Beautifully written, West Side Girl chronicles the colorful and oftentimes unpredictably eccentric characters and events of the area and time. Themes include social change, girls empowerment and the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Seen through of the eyes of a child coming of age in the 1950's and 1960's, these true stories of the quest for equality and social justice are outrageous, insightful, funny, touching, inspiring and reflective. Profits from the sale of this book are donated to Off the Street Club, www.otsc.org.
Download or read book Men of Mendel Tales from Chicago s South Side and the Catholic School System of the 1960 s written by Lauren D. Chouinard and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the late 1960s on Chicago's south side. Neighborhoods in this part of the city are changing colors virtually overnight as African Americans and Hispanics move in great numbers from southern states to opportunities in the rust belt cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Racial tensions between whites and blacks increase sending many white families scurrying off to the surrounding suburbs. Gang activity spreads like a virus through the South and West Sides of the city as crime rates begin a decade-long march to unprecedented levels. Enrollment in private Catholic schools peaks before beginning a long, slow decline by the end of the century. This is the setting for Men of Mendel, a personal account of growing up in the inner-city in a time of social upheaval while attending one of Chicago's many, all-boys Catholic high schools. Men of Mendel is an often hilarious and sometimes irreverent recollection of life among the Augustinian Fathers. They had the unenviable task of providing a quality, "college preparatory" education to 1,000 post-pubescent, mischievous boys, hell-bent on trying to outsmart them. This is not a work of fiction as all the crazy things that happened at the school took place exactly as recounted. If you are one of the many thousands of people who attended a parochial school, surely these tales with resonate with you. They will bring back memories of a time when corporal punishment at the hands of black-robed agents of God was viewed as a necessary evil in the proper education of Catholic children.
Download or read book Chicago Boy written by Ivan Philip Ivarson and published by Ivan Philip Ivarson. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago Boy is my memoir and a first hand account of what it was like for a boy to grow up in Chicago's North Side neighborhoods in the 1960s. This was a time when children played outside from an early age. Chicago Boy is filled with accounts of colorful characters and adventurous narratives. The exclusive neighborhoods of Lincoln Park, Roscoe Village and Wrigleyville were simple blue-collar neighborhoods in the 1960s. They were filled with vibrant, old school peoples and every day seemed to be an adventure. Young people hung out in front of their houses, in the parks, in schoolyards, and of course, in the streets. People were friendly in an open and commonplace manner. For the most part they were on good terms with their surrounding neighbors. In Chicago Boy are tales of adventure and romance as well as dangerous situations with neighborhood tuffs. Our household consisted of me and my single parent mother with visits from my Swedish father who had gone to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Much of the book is about simple and easy times with family and friends. Most of the book is exactly as I remember it. However, I've taken poet license with some situations. Chicago Boy is not an overly lengthy book. The episodes favor concise good storytelling over elaborate detail. I've written the book in a fashion or "voice" that is as close to my natural speaking voice as possible. Its language is that of the time or "period language" if you will. Historical events of the time are mentioned. The hippy days, the Vietnam War and the first trip to the moon were all occurrences of the 1960s. Perhaps most of all I describe the people and atmosphere that I was surrounded by in Chicago's North Side neighborhoods. Culturally this was a much different time then today. There were many difficulties of the period and still I remember a friendly and inviting world that surrounded me. It is my sincere hope you will enjoy reading Chicago Boy.
Download or read book Ethics written by Gordon Marino and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer—and cover a broad range of topics, from the timeless questions of justice, morality, and faith to the hot-button concerns of today, such as animal rights, our duties to the environment, and gender issues. Featuring an illuminating preamble, concise introductory essays on the giants of ethical theory, and incisive chapter headnotes to the modern offerings, this Modern Library edition is a perfect single-volume reference for students, teachers, and anyone eager to engage in reflection on ethical questions, including “What is the basis for our ethical views and judgments?” Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. A recipient of the Richard J. Davis Ethics Award for excellence in writing on ethics and the law, he is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, and editor of the Modern Library’s Basic Writings of Existentialism. His essays have appeared in The New York Times.
Download or read book Latino Ethnic Consciousness written by Felix M. Padilla and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Mexican-American and Puerto Rican populations in Chicago, Latino Ethnic Consciousness documents the development of a collective Hispanic or Latino ethnic identity, distinct and separate from the national and cultural affiliations of Spanish-speaking groups. Author Felix Padilla explores the internal dynamics and external conditions, which have prompted this move past individual group boundaries to a broader ethnic identity. According to Padilla, the Latino ethnic identity develops from the cultural and structural similarities of two or more Spanish-speaking groups and often in response to common experiences of social inequality. In that ethnic identities have to a large extent been encouraged by the division of the labor market in America's industrial society, he argues that the Latino consciousness represents a situational ethnic identity which functions according to the needs of the groups. He describes how such conditions as poverty and racial discrimination have necessitated the assertion of a broader Latino ethnic consciousness and behavior, often more successful in social action than individual cultural or national associations. In case studies from the early 70s, Padilla examines Affirmative Action, the Spanish Coalition for Jobs--spurred by activist Hector Franco--and the Latino Institute, and their influence on the growth of Latino solidarity and mobilization in Chicago. In refining the concept of Latino and Hispanic and establishing its significance in society, Latino Ethnic Consciousness serves as an analytic framework for further study of ethnic change in America.
Download or read book Brown in the Windy City written by Lilia Fernández and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America’s great cities. Through their experiences in the city’s central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernández demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.
Download or read book Globalization and Race written by Kamari Maxine Clarke and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing meanings of blackness in the context of globalization. It illuminates the connections between contemporary global processes of racialization and transnational circulations set in motion by imperialism and slavery; between popular culture and global conceptions of blackness; and between the work of anthropologists, policymakers, religious revivalists, and activists and the solidification and globalization of racial categories. A number of the essays bring to light the formative but not unproblematic influence of African American identity on other populations within the black diaspora. Among these are an examination of the impact of "black America" on racial identity and politics in mid-twentieth-century Liverpool and an inquiry into the distinctive experiences of blacks in Canada. Contributors investigate concepts of race and space in early-twenty-first century Harlem, the experiences of trafficked Nigerian sex workers in Italy, and the persistence of race in the purportedly non-racial language of the "New South Africa." They highlight how blackness is consumed and expressed in Cuban timba music, in West Indian adolescent girls' fascination with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and in the incorporation of American rap music into black London culture. Connecting race to ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, and religion, these essays reveal how new class economies, ideologies of belonging, and constructions of social difference are emerging from ongoing global transformations. Contributors. Robert L. Adams, Lee D. Baker, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Tina M. Campt, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Raymond Codrington, Grant Farred, Kesha Fikes, Isar Godreau, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, John L. Jackson Jr., Oneka LaBennett, Naomi Pabst, Lena Sawyer, Deborah A. Thomas
Download or read book Puerto Rican Chicago written by Felix M. Padilla and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnic Chicago written by Melvin Holli and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05-19 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of ethnic life in the city, detailing the process of adjustment, cultural survival, and ethnic identification among groups such as the Irish, Ukrainians, African Americans, Asian Indians, and Swedes. New to this edition is a six-chapter section that examines ethnic institutions including saloons, sports, crime, churches, neighborhoods, and cemeteries. Includes bandw photos and illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Mountains of Injustice written by Michele Morrone and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in environmental justice reveals that low-income and minority neighborhoods in our nation’s cities are often the preferred sites for landfills, power plants, and polluting factories. Those who live in these sacrifice zones are forced to shoulder the burden of harmful environmental effects so that others can prosper. Mountains of Injustice broadens the discussion from the city to the country by focusing on the legacy of disproportionate environmental health impacts on communities in the Appalachian region, where the costs of cheap energy and cheap goods are actually quite high. Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development.
