TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Preston H. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Racial democracy and the black metropolis: housing policy in postwar Chicago AV - HD7288.72.U52 S65 2012eb U1 - 363.5/99607307731109045 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Minneapolis, Minn. PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - African Americans KW - Housing KW - Illinois KW - Chicago KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Home ownership KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Black civic ideology and political economy in postwar Chicago -- Racial democracy and the case for public housing -- Black factions contesting public housing -- Fighting "negro clearance" : black elites and urban redevelopment policy -- From negro clearance to negro containment : displacement and relocation in a dual housing market -- Black redevelopment and negro conservation -- Racial violence and the crisis of black elite leadership -- From restrictive covenants to occupancy standards : class and racial democracy -- Selling the negro housing market -- Self-help and the black real estate industry -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10555664 ER -