Segregating Cities
An Arnold R. Hirsch Reader
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Segregating Cities
An Arnold R. Hirsch Reader
Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto.
Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark book, Making the Second Ghetto. With compelling clarity, Hirsch demonstrated that segregation is not the inevitable result of individual choices, natural tendencies, or cultural traits—it is a structural phenomenon, reinforced on every level by state power.
Segregating Cities collects the author’s key essays, some previously unpublished, to reveal a more complete picture of a remarkable scholar and his exploration of race, place, politics, and policy in the twentieth-century American city. Together, these essays can help us see segregation for what it is, so that we can then begin to truly work to overcome it.
Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark book, Making the Second Ghetto. With compelling clarity, Hirsch demonstrated that segregation is not the inevitable result of individual choices, natural tendencies, or cultural traits—it is a structural phenomenon, reinforced on every level by state power.
Segregating Cities collects the author’s key essays, some previously unpublished, to reveal a more complete picture of a remarkable scholar and his exploration of race, place, politics, and policy in the twentieth-century American city. Together, these essays can help us see segregation for what it is, so that we can then begin to truly work to overcome it.
560 pages | 7 halftones, 4 tables | 6 x 9
Historical Studies of Urban America
History: American History, Urban History
Table of Contents
Editor’s Preface
Introduction: The Hard Work of Segregation: Arnold Hirsch and Critical Histories of Race by Thomas J. Sugrue
Part I: First and Second Ghettos
1. With or Without Jim Crow: Black Residential Segregation in the United States
2. E Pluribus Duo?: Thoughts on “Whiteness” and Chicago’s “New” Immigration as a Transient Third Tier
3. Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953–1966
4. Second Thoughts on the Second Ghetto
Part II: Aiming Low and Falling Short: Segregation and the State
5. “Containment” on the Home Front: Race and Federal Housing Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War
6. Searching for a “Sound Negro Policy”: A Racial Agenda for the Housing Acts of 1949 and 1954
7. “The Last and Most Difficult Barrier”: Segregation and Federal Housing Policy in the Eisenhower Administration, 1953–1960
8. Less Than Plessy: The Inner-City, Suburbs and State-Sanctioned Residential Segregation in the Age of Brown
Part III: The Devil Is in the Details: Segregation in Practice
9. Original Sins: Micro-Decisions and the Legacy of Segregation in Chicago’s Public Housing
10. Public Policy and Residential Segregation in Baltimore, 1910–1968
11. Race and Renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947–1968
Part IV: Race and Urban Politics
12. Chicago: The Cook County Democratic Organization and the Dilemma of Race, 1931–1987
13. Harold and Dutch Revisited: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction: The Hard Work of Segregation: Arnold Hirsch and Critical Histories of Race by Thomas J. Sugrue
Part I: First and Second Ghettos
1. With or Without Jim Crow: Black Residential Segregation in the United States
2. E Pluribus Duo?: Thoughts on “Whiteness” and Chicago’s “New” Immigration as a Transient Third Tier
3. Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953–1966
4. Second Thoughts on the Second Ghetto
Part II: Aiming Low and Falling Short: Segregation and the State
5. “Containment” on the Home Front: Race and Federal Housing Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War
6. Searching for a “Sound Negro Policy”: A Racial Agenda for the Housing Acts of 1949 and 1954
7. “The Last and Most Difficult Barrier”: Segregation and Federal Housing Policy in the Eisenhower Administration, 1953–1960
8. Less Than Plessy: The Inner-City, Suburbs and State-Sanctioned Residential Segregation in the Age of Brown
Part III: The Devil Is in the Details: Segregation in Practice
9. Original Sins: Micro-Decisions and the Legacy of Segregation in Chicago’s Public Housing
10. Public Policy and Residential Segregation in Baltimore, 1910–1968
11. Race and Renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947–1968
Part IV: Race and Urban Politics
12. Chicago: The Cook County Democratic Organization and the Dilemma of Race, 1931–1987
13. Harold and Dutch Revisited: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans
Acknowledgments
Index