Saul Alinsky and the dilemmas of race : community organizing in the postwar city /

Saul Alinsky and the dilemmas of race : community organizing in the postwar city /

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Author / Creator:	Santow, Mark E., 1967- author.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	408 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Alinsky, Saul D., -- 1909-1972. Alinsky, Saul D., -- 1909-1972 Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (Chicago, Ill.) Organization for the Southwest Community (Chicago, Ill.) Woodlawn Organization. Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (Chicago, Ill.) Woodlawn Organization Community organization -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Segregation -- Illinois -- Chicago. Black people -- Segregation -- Illinois -- Chicago. Black people -- Segregation Community organization Race relations Segregation Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations. Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century. Illinois -- Chicago History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13349165

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ISBN:	9780226826271 0226826279 9780226826288
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-395) and index.
Summary:	"Saul Alinsky was the most famous--and notorious--community organizer in America. In a long and controversial career, Alinsky helped organize communities nationwide, stressing the power of locally grounded decision-making. Mark Santow here foregrounds Alinsky's attempts to grapple with the impact on race on urban communities in and around Chicago, as metropolitan color lines were constructed, contested, and reinforced. He focuses on Alinsky's work with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, the Organization for the Southwest Community, and the Woodlawn Organization, showing how his emphasis on local organizing and territorial identity both abetted the pursuit of justice and made residential integration all the more elusive. Santow's account of Alinsky's successes and failures enriches the social history of urban America and its enduring dilemmas"--

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