Making the Second Ghetto: Race & Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Arnold R. Hirsch

Introduction to Topic

Central Question: How has the Great Migration impacted the social, economic, and political factors that shaped the lives of the migrants and existing residents in northern urban centers?

Vital Theme and Narrative
Patterns of social and political interaction.

History's Habit of the Mind
Understand how things happen and how they change.

 

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