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Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Chicago History.
RACIAL OPPRESSION IN THE GLOBAL METROPOLIS: A LIVING CHICAGO HISTORY
By Paul Street
Rowman & Littlefield, 312 pages
PPEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIVE NEWS about Black progress in Chicago should not read this book Replete with data the book provides a sobering look at Carl Sandburg's "City of the big shoulders," arguing convincingly that for most of Chicago's Black community, life has improved little in 50 years.
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An independent scholar, Street expands on a 2004 report he wrote for the Chicago Urban League, "Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, Policy and the State of Black Chicago." The basic message of both works: Although a few Black individuals like Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama have garnered tremendous wealth, prestige and even positions of political power, the lot of most Black people has remained essentially unchanged, due to institutional racism, ...
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