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The Near Northwest Side Storyby Gina M. Pérez
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. more...
Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968by Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Routledge 2004; US$ 113.00This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention. more...
American Pharaohby Adam Cohen; Elizabeth Taylor
Hachette Book Group USA 2001; US$ 9.99This is Chicago, this is America. With those words, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley famously defended his brutal crackdown on protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention. Profoundly divided racially, economically, and socially, Chicago was indeed a microcosm of America, and for more than two decades Daley ruled it with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable political machine that controlled over one million votes. From 1955 until his death in 1976, every decision of any importance--from distributing patronage jobs to picking Congressional candidates--went through his office. He was a major player in national politics as well: Kennedy and Johnson owed their presidencies to his control of the Illinois vote, and... more...
Life Linesby Jean Bacon
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 60.00This text is intended for sociologists and anthropologists interested in ethnicity, community and integration amongst Asian Indian immigrants. more...
White on Arrivalby Thomas A. Guglielmo
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 35.00Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late nineteenth century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and an array of primary sources in English and Italian, the author focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and colour were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago. more...
Frommer's® Chicago 2007by Elizabeth Canning Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go -- they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. more...
Once a King, Always a Kingby Reymundo Sanchez
Chicago Review Press 2004; US$ 12.95This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto once a king, always a king” rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up behind bars and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run from inside the prison system. Harrowing testaments to Sanchez’s determination to rebuild his life include his efforts to separate... more...
Power, Community, and Racial Killing in St. Louisby Malcolm McLaughlin
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00An exploration of the brutal East St. Louis race riot of 1917, and the city and community that gave rise to it. more...
Double Crossby Jacalyn D. Harden
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 60.00Jacalyn D. Harden examines the Japanese American community of Chicago?s Far North Side to form an innovative new framework for looking at race, identity, and political change. The result is a compelling and surprising account of racial interactions, one that clarifies the complex interweaving between black and Asian lives and reclaims a lost history of solidarity between the two groups. more...
Frommer's Chicago 2008by Elizabeth Canning Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 17.99According to Chicago's Convention and Tourism Bureau, the city had 18.1 million domestic tourists in 2006. Chicago was voted third-best U.S. city by Travel + Leisure readers. more...