Chicago Divided
The Making of a Black Mayor
Published on 1. April 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
331 pages
978-0-87580-532-0 (ISBN)
Description
In April 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of Chicago. His victory came at the end of a rancorous campaign that attracted national media coverage and left Chicago "a city divided against itself." Chicago Divided sensitively reconstructs the developments that led to Chicago's 1983 political season. Investigating the election and its background, Kleppner taps a formidable array of sources-including newspapers, court cases, public opinion polls, and voting returns-to analyze the causes and consequences of Chicago's electoral revolution.
Reviews / Votes
An important and provocative book that chronicles the history of black empowerment in the city of Chicago and the sumultaneous defeat of the last great urban political machine. The dramatic nature of events that culminated in Washington's victory are carefully unfolded by Kleppner so that this political history reads like an exciting novel.(Political Science Quarterly) A significant contribution to the study of the growth of black urban political power in recent decades.
(New York Times Book Review)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87580-532-0 (9780875805320)
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Content
Table of Contents
1. Politics Chicago Style: The Turning Point
2. Population Diversity and Political Change, 1870-1970
3. Racial Change and Group Conflict
4. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: The Daley Years, 1955-1976
5. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: From Bilandic to Byrne, 1976-1982
6. The Politics of Race: The Democratic Mayoral Primary, 1983
7. Race War Chicago Style: The Election of a Mayor, 1983
8. Beyond Chicago and April 1983
Notes
Index
1. Politics Chicago Style: The Turning Point
2. Population Diversity and Political Change, 1870-1970
3. Racial Change and Group Conflict
4. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: The Daley Years, 1955-1976
5. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: From Bilandic to Byrne, 1976-1982
6. The Politics of Race: The Democratic Mayoral Primary, 1983
7. Race War Chicago Style: The Election of a Mayor, 1983
8. Beyond Chicago and April 1983
Notes
Index