By Arnold R. Hirsch
"In this wonderful, elaborate, and meticulously researched examine, Hirsch exposes the social engineering of the post-war ghetto."—Roma Barnes, Journal of yank Studies
"According to Arnold Hirsch, Chicago's postwar housing initiatives have been a massive workout in ethical deception. . . . [An] first-class learn of public coverage long past astray."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
"An informative and provocative account of severe elements of the method in [Chicago]. . . . a very good and worthwhile book."—Zane Miller, Reviews in American History
"A worthy and significant book."—Allan Spear, Journal of yankee History
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Other links between the first and second ghettos were less visible but equally important. The emergence of Chicago's "black metropolis" gave rise to institutional, economic, and political forces that had their roots, and therefore a stake, in the ghetto. The white hostility that isolated blacks spatially necessitated the creation of an "institutional ghetto," a city within a city, to serve them. It also produced a leadership class eager, or at least willing (as suggested by Duke's approach to housing), to pursue separate development rather than total assimilation - which is to say it created interests that could only view the ghetto's destruction with grave misgivings.
Analysts of the 1919 riot never fail to· cite the growth of Chicago's black population: more than 148% between 1910 and 1920. Yet, it was the addition of 65,355 new black Chicagoans to a relatively small existing black population that accounted for the large percentage increase. Between 1940 and 1950 Chicago'S black population swelled by 214,534; between 1950 and 1960 it grew by 320,372. Although the percentage growth during these two decades cannot compare with that associated with the The dynamics of neighborhood change 17 Table 1.
Gearly, this was a population movement that dwarfed the earlier Great Migration. If Chicago offered the migrants work, however, the city was much less able to provide them with shelter. Aggravating the situation was the shortage of black housing that existed before the wartime migration began. After a building boom in the 1920s, which saw more than 287,000 dwelling units constructed, the Depression brought the housing industry in Chicago to a standstill. ·From the peak year of 1926, when 42,932 units were built, new construction sank to a low of 137 units in 1933.