Journal article
White Rage, White Liberals, and the Making of the Second Ghetto
Journal of urban history, Vol.46(3), pp.511-515
05/2020
DOI: 10.1177/0096144219891151
Abstract
This article offers comment on the legacy of Arnold Hirsch’s Making the Second Ghetto. First, it explores the debate over agency that emerged after the book’s publication, defending Hirsch’s decision to focus on white actors rather than black ones. Second, it argues that Hirsch’s book in many ways anticipated Carol Anderson’s “white rage” thesis in its documentation of white efforts, subtle and explicit, to resist integration and racial succession. Third, it examines Hirsch’s condemnation of white liberals for their complicity in the second ghetto’s creation and contextualizes the book’s 1983 publication against the backdrop of the Harold Washington political revolution in Chicago that same year. And finally, it reflects upon the value of Hirsch’s willingness to name names when it came to the making of the second ghetto.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- White Rage, White Liberals, and the Making of the Second Ghetto
- Creators
- Simon Balto - University of Iowa, African American Studies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of urban history, Vol.46(3), pp.511-515
- DOI
- 10.1177/0096144219891151
- ISSN
- 0096-1442
- eISSN
- 1552-6771
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2020
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; History
- Record Identifier
- 9984012797702771
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