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Mark Santow
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7 August 2023
Online ISBN:
9780226826288
Print ISBN:
9780226826271
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
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Santow, Mark, Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City (
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Santow, Mark. Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City. University of Chicago Press, 2023. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826288.001.0001.
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Abstract
Segregation remains a fact of life in the nation’s cities and suburbs, concentrating people of color in low-opportunity communities across multiple generations. It took a long time and much effort to create these patterns. It will take time and effort to unravel them. But first we must see them for what they are: a tightly wound human construct, creating and amplifying – but also obfuscating – inequality for generations of Americans. More than almost any other American public figure of the past century, community organizer Saul Alinsky was acutely aware of and grappled with the relationship between social geography, activism, and racial justice. He possessed a keen sociological imagination, honed by the heat of Chicago’s postwar racial politics. This book is an attempt to explain and explore that imagination, the actions it inspired, and the lessons it may have to teach us about the struggle for social justice. Because he confronted these issues on paper and in the streets, on both sides of the color line, in the halls of power and at the grassroots, in Chicago and in Washington, and over a thirty-year period, his story gives us unique access to the racial politics of the era. Through Alinsky and his organizations in Chicago’s Back of the Yards, Southwest Side, and Woodlawn, we can see how the metropolitan color line was constructed, contested, and maintained. We can also discern paths that were not taken, but perhaps should have been -- and still could be.
Keywords: Saul Alinsky, Chicago, community organizing, racial segregation, War on Poverty, liberalism
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History of the Americas
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