Edited by Lilia Fernndez, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Becky M. Nicolaides, and Amanda Seligman
James R. Grossman, editor emeritus
Also in the series:
MAKING THE MISSION: PLANNING AND ETHNICITY IN SAN FRANCISCO by Ocean Howell
CONFEDERATE CITIES: THE URBAN SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR ERA edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers
THE CYCLING CITY: BICYCLES AND URBAN AMERICA IN THE 1890S by Evan Friss
A NATION OF NEIGHBORHOODS: IMAGINING CITIES, COMMUNITIES, AND DEMOCRACY IN POSTWAR AMERICA by Benjamin Looker
WORLD OF HOMEOWNERS: AMERICAN POWER AND THE POLITICS OF HOUSING AID by Nancy H. Kwak
DEMOLITION MEANS PROGRESS: FLINT, MICHIGAN, AND THE FATE OF THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS by Andrew R. Highsmith
METROPOLITAN JEWS: POLITICS, RACE, AND RELIGION IN POSTWAR DETROIT by Lila Corwin Berman
BLOOD RUNS GREEN: THE MURDER THAT TRANSFIXED GILDED AGE CHICAGO by Gillian OBrien
A CITY FOR CHILDREN: WOMEN, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE CHARITABLE LANDSCAPES OF OAKLAND, 18501950 by Marta Gutman
A WORLD MORE CONCRETE: REAL ESTATE AND THE REMAKING OF JIM CROW SOUTH FLORIDA by N. D. B. Connolly
URBAN APPETITES: FOOD AND CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK by Cindy R. Lobel
CRUCIBLES OF BLACK EMPOWERMENT: CHICAGOS NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS FROM THE NEW DEAL TO HAROLD WASHINGTON by Jeffrey Helgeson
THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO: POLICING AND THE CREATION OF A COSMOPOLITAN LIBERAL POLITICS, 19501972 by Christopher Lowen Agee
HARLEM: THE UNMAKING OF A GHETTO by Camilo Jos Vergara
PLANNING THE HOME FRONT: BUILDING BOMBERS AND COMMUNITIES AT WILLOW RUN by Sarah Jo Peterson
PURGING THE POOREST: PUBLIC HOUSING AND THE DESIGN POLITICS OF TWICE-CLEARED COMMUNITIES by Lawrence J. Vale
BROWN IN THE WINDY CITY: MEXICANS AND PUERTO RICANS IN POSTWAR CHICAGO by Lilia Fernndez
BUILDING A MARKET: THE RISE OF THE HOME IMPROVEMENT INDUSTRY, 19141960 by Richard Harris
SEGREGATION: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF DIVIDED CITIES by Carl H. Nightingale
SUNDAYS AT SINAI: A JEWISH CONGREGATION IN CHICAGO by Tobias Brinkmann
IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT: LIFE IN THE NOCTURNAL CITY, 18201930 by Peter C. Baldwin
MISS CUTLER AND THE CASE OF THE RESURRECTED HORSE: SOCIAL WORK AND THE STORY OF POVERTY IN AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, AND BRITAIN by Mark Peel
THE TRANSATLANTIC COLLAPSE OF URBAN RENEWAL: POSTWAR URBANISM FROM NEW YORK TO BERLIN by Christopher Klemek
IVE GOT TO MAKE MY LIVIN: BLACK WOMENS SEX WORK IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY CHICAGO by Cynthia M. Blair
PUERTO RICAN CITIZEN: HISTORY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY NEW YORK CITY by Lorrin Thomas
STAYING ITALIAN: URBAN CHANGE AND ETHNIC LIFE IN POSTWAR TORONTO AND PHILADELPHIA by Jordan Stanger-Ross
NEW YORK UNDERCOVER: PRIVATE SURVEILLANCE IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA by Jennifer Fronc
AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN HISTORY SINCE WORLD WAR II edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter
BLUEPRINT FOR DISASTER: THE UNRAVELING OF CHICAGO PUBLIC HOUSING by D. Bradford Hunt
ALIEN NEIGHBORS, FOREIGN FRIENDS: ASIAN AMERICANS, HOUSING, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN CALIFORNIA by Charlotte Brooks
THE PROBLEM OF JOBS: LIBERALISM, RACE, AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION IN PHILADELPHIA by Guian A. McKee
CHICAGO MADE: FACTORY NETWORKS IN THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS by Robert Lewis
THE FLASH PRESS: SPORTING MALE WEEKLIES IN 1840S NEW YORK by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz in association with the American Antiquarian Society
SLUMMING: SEXUAL AND RACIAL ENCOUNTERS IN AMERICAN NIGHTLIFE, 18851940 by Chad Heap
COLORED PROPERTY: STATE POLICY AND WHITE RACIAL POLITICS IN SUBURBAN AMERICA by David M. P. Freund
SELLING THE RACE: CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND BLACK CHICAGO, 19401955 by Adam Green
THE NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue
MILLENNIUM PARK: CREATING A CHICAGO LANDMARK by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
CITY OF AMERICAN DREAMS: A HISTORY OF HOME OWNERSHIP AND HOUSING REFORM IN CHICAGO, 18711919 by Margaret Garb
CHICAGOLAND: CITY AND SUBURBS IN THE RAILROAD AGE by Ann Durkin Keating
THE ELUSIVE IDEAL: EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE FEDERAL ROLE IN BOSTONS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 19501985 by Adam R. Nelson
BLOCK BY BLOCK: NEIGHBORHOODS AND PUBLIC POLICY ON CHICAGOS WEST SIDE by Amanda I. Seligman
DOWNTOWN AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT by Alison Isenberg
PLACES OF THEIR OWN: AFRICAN AMERICAN SUBURBANIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Andrew Wiese
BUILDING THE SOUTH SIDE: URBAN SPACE AND CIVIC CULTURE IN CHICAGO, 18901919 by Robin F. Bachin
IN THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN NEW YORK CITY, 16261863 by Leslie M. Harris
MY BLUE HEAVEN: LIFE AND POLITICS IN THE WORKING-CLASS SUBURBS OF LOS ANGELES, 19201965 by Becky M. Nicolaides
BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN: BLACKS, JEWS, AND THE CHANGING FACE OF THE GHETTO by Wendell Pritchett
THE CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF MANHATTAN, 19001940 by Max Page
STREETS, RAILROADS, AND THE GREAT STRIKE OF 1877 by David O. Stowell
FACES ALONG THE BAR: LORE AND ORDER IN THE WORKINGMANS SALOON, 18701920 by Madelon Powers
MAKING THE SECOND GHETTO: RACE AND HOUSING IN CHICAGO, 19401960 by Arnold R. Hirsch
SMOLDERING CITY: CHICAGOANS AND THE GREAT FIRE, 18711874 by Karen Sawislak
MODERN HOUSING FOR AMERICA: POLICY STRUGGLES IN THE NEW DEAL ERA by Gail Radford
PARISH BOUNDARIES: THE CATHOLIC ENCOUNTER WITH RACE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY URBAN NORTH by John T. McGreevy
Ansley T. Erickson is assistant professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
2016 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2016.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02525-4 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02539-1 (e-book)
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226025391.001.0001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Erickson, Ansley T., author.
Making The Unequal Metropolis : School Desegregation and Its Limits / Ansley T. Erickson.
Pages : Maps ; Cm. (Historical studies of urban America)
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