Making the Second Ghetto
In his book Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch claims that Chicago was a "pioneer in establishing concepts and tactics" for housing segregation during the postwar years. Hirsch demonstrates that the legal underpinning for the national urban regeneration project was developed in the crucible of Chicago's South Side racial strife. His account of ethnic, political, and corporate interests' actions in response to the large influx of southern blacks in the 1940s reveals how the violent reaction of an emerging "white" populace coupled with government policy to segregate the city.
