Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago`s South Side, Bey Lee

Автор: Terry L. Jones, Deborah A. Jones, William Hildebrandt, Kacey Hadick, Patricia Mikkelsen
Название: The Prehistory of Morro Bay: Central California`s Overlooked Estuary
ISBN: 1607817063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607817062
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Morro Bay is one of more than thirty estuaries where prehistoric people thrived along the California coast, yet for much of the twentieth century these systems were deemed insignificant. This book combines archaeological data from massive excavations completed between 2003 and 2014 to reveal an overlooked history of cultural change and adaptation.

Автор: Aspholm Roberto
Название: Views from the Streets: The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago`s South Side
ISBN: 0231187734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231187732
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Views from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago`s South Side during the early twenty-first century. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm sheds new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it.

Автор: Aspholm Roberto
Название: Views from the Streets: The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago`s South Side
ISBN: 0231187726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231187725
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Описание: Views from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago`s South Side during the early twenty-first century. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm sheds new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it.

Автор: Ewing Eve L.
Название: Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago`s South Side
ISBN: 022652616X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226526164
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Описание: "Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools."

That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt.

But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures--they're an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together.

Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike?

Ewing's answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools--schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs--as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.

Автор: Bradburd Rus
Название: All the Dreams We`ve Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago`s West Side
ISBN: 1641602724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641602723
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams . In January of 2014, Marshalls struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fire on Harringtons car as he drove his daughter to school. Using his body to shield her, Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshalls basketball family. Over the next three years it became obvious that the dream of the game providing a better life had nearly dissolved. Author Rus Bradburd tells Shawns story with empathy and care, exploring the intertwined tragedies of gun violence, health care failure, racial assumptions, struggling educational systems, corruption in athletics—and the hope that can survive them all.

Автор: Cutler Irving
Название: Chicago`s Jewish West Side
ISBN: 1531638937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531638931
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Автор: Cotter Bill
Название: Chicago`s 1933-34 World`s Fair: A Century of Progress
ISBN: 1531670938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531670931
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Автор: Magallon Frank S.
Название: Chicago`s Little Village: Lawndale-Crawford
ISBN: 1531651275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531651275
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Автор: Dinces Sean
Название: Bulls Markets: Chicago`s Basketball Business and the New Inequality
ISBN: 022658321X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226583211
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Описание: An unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that reshaped contemporary Chicago--arguably for the worse. ​

The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners in constructing a sparkling new venue to house this incredible team that was identified worldwide with Chicago. That arena, the United Center, is the focus of Bulls Markets, an unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that forever reshaped one of America's largest cities--arguably for the worse.

Sean Dinces shows how the construction of the United Center reveals the fundamental problems with neoliberal urban development. The pitch for building the arena was fueled by promises of private funding and equitable revitalization in a long-blighted neighborhood. However, the effort was funded in large part by municipal tax breaks that few ordinary Chicagoans knew about, and that wound up exacerbating the rising problems of gentrification and wealth stratification. In this portrait of the construction of the United Center and the urban life that developed around it, Dinces starkly depicts a pattern of inequity that has become emblematic of contemporary American cities: governments and sports franchises collude to provide amenities for the wealthy at the expense of poorer citizens, diminishing their experiences as fans and--far worse--creating an urban environment that is regulated and surveilled for the comfort and protection of that same moneyed elite.

Автор: Joe Kraus
Название: The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago`s Jewish Gangsters
ISBN: 1501747312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501747311
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing."

These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.

With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.

Автор: Danahey Mike, Hantschel Allison
Название: Chicago`s Historic Irish Pubs
ISBN: 1531655874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531655877
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Автор: Hayner Don
Название: Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago`s First Black Banker
ISBN: 081014090X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810140905
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Описание: The definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with nothing. Through his wits and resourcefulness, he rose to wealth and influence as a real estate broker, and in 1908 he founded the first black-owned bank in Chicago.