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Book SynopsisBeryl Satter''s Family Properties is really an incredible book. It is, by far, the best book I''ve ever read on the relationship between blacks and Jews. That''s because it hones in on the relationship between one specific black community and one specific Jewish community and thus revels in the particular humanity of all its actors. Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nation
The promised land for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation''s worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.''s first campaign beyond the South. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city''s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of p
