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What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations.@@@Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth- Century Urban North.
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1996-12-01. It has received 204 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Irish.read more
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Urban Space, Restrictive Covenants and the Origins of Racial Residential Segregation in a US City, 1900–50
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the organized efforts of community builders and homeowner associations to create racially homogeneous neighborhoods through the use and enforcement of racially restrictive covenants and conclude that the linkage between race, racism and urban space helps to explain why racial residential segregation remains a persistent and tenacious feature of US metropolitan areas despite the passage of fair housing and numerous anti-discrimination statutes over the past decades.
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The Resourceful Believer: Generating Civic Skills in Church
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which members practice politically relevant civic skills in church, generating a base of resourceful citizens equipped for political activity, are investigated, and considerable support justifying the decision to open the black box and investigate the varied ways in which churches promote the acquisition of civic skills.
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Racialization and the State: The Housing Act of 1934 and the Creation of the Federal Housing Administration:
TL;DR: The authors used the concept of racialization to reframe existing theories of the state to explain the origin of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) through the Housing Act of 1934, which was created for the purpose of salvaging the home building and finance industries that had collapsed during the Great Depression.
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Democracy of credit: Ownership and the politics of credit access in late twentieth-century America
TL;DR: This paper explored distinctive features of the credit transaction that differentiate claims making in the credit market from more familiar forms of claims-making in the labor market, and showed that to the extent the status of ownership is institutionalized in credit transaction, borrowers may be able to overcome some of the disadvantages associated with occupying the weaker position in an...
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Peter G. Goheen,Arnold R. Hirsch +1 more
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The Transplanted-A History of Immigrants in Urban America.
Mark Wyman,John Bodnar +1 more
TL;DR: The Transplanted is a tour de force, and a fitting summation to Bodnar's own prolific, creative, and insightful writings on immigrants as discussed by the authors, a major survey of the immigrant experience between 1830 and 1930, and has implications for all students and scholars of American social history.