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Building a Better Chicago : Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment
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How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. In Building a Better Chicago, Teresa Irene Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled, revealing tensions between neighborhood residents and the institutions that claim to represent them. Focusing on Little Village, the largest Mexican immigrant community in the Midwest, and Greater Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, Gonzales gives us an on-the-ground look at Chicago’s inner city. She shows us how philanthropists, nonprofits, and government agencies struggle for power and control—often against the interests of residents themselves—with the result of further marginalizing the communities of color they seek to help. But Gonzales also shows how these communities have advocated for themselves and demanded accountability from the politicians and agencies in their midst. Building a Better Chicago explores the many high-stakes battles taking place on the streets of Chicago, illuminating a more promising pathway to empowering communities of color in the twenty-first century.
ISBN
9781479814886
Publication Date
6-1-2021
Publisher
New York University Press
City
New York, USA
Keywords
Illinois--Chicago, Social Change, Gentrification, City Planning, Social change
Disciplines
Civic and Community Engagement | Race and Ethnicity | Sociology
Recommended Citation
Gonzales, Teresa, "Building a Better Chicago : Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment" (2021). Faculty Books. 243.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/243
