Building a Better Chicago

Released on by Teresa Irene Gonzales
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  • Building a Better Chicago Book Detail

  • Author : Teresa Irene Gonzales
  • Release Date : 2021-06-29
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 149
  • ISBN 13 : 1479813567
  • File Size : 14,14 MB
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Building a Better Chicago by Teresa Irene Gonzales PDF Summary

Book Description: How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. In Building a Better Chicago, Teresa Irene Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled, revealing tensions between neighborhood residents and the institutions that claim to represent them. Focusing on Little Village, the largest Mexican immigrant community in the Midwest, and Greater Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, Gonzales gives us an on-the-ground look at Chicago’s inner city. She shows us how philanthropists, nonprofits, and government agencies struggle for power and control—often against the interests of residents themselves—with the result of further marginalizing the communities of color they seek to help. But Gonzales also shows how these communities have advocated for themselves and demanded accountability from the politicians and agencies in their midst. Building a Better Chicago explores the many high-stakes battles taking place on the streets of Chicago, illuminating a more promising pathway to empowering communities of color in the twenty-first century.

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