Description: 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 Segregating Cities collects the author's key essays, some previously unpublished, to reveal a more complete picture of a remarkable scholar and his exploration of race, place, politics, and policy in the twentieth-century American city.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.Brief description: Arnold R. Hirsch (1949-2018) was the Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Endowed Chair for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans. The author of the influential Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, Hirsch's research showed how racism pervaded every stratum of American society.
Review Quotes:
"Every scholar today who writes about racism, segregation, class, immigration, liberalism, housing, cities, mob violence, municipal, state or federal politics, or the construction of whiteness owes a debt to Arnold R. Hirsch. This fine collection of Hirch's brilliant and bracing articles, including several that were never-before published, demonstrates why."
--Beryl Satter, author of "Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods"