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Book SynopsisIn Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream. Black Chicagoans demonstrated their talent and ambitions, but they entered through the narrow gate, and whites denied them equal opportunities in the educational institutions, workplaces, and neighborhoods that produced the middle class. African Americans resisted these restrictions at nearly every turn by moving up into better careers and moving out into higher-quality neighborhoods, but their continued marginalization helped create a deeply dysfunctional city. African Americans settled in Ch
Trade Review
In pushing the boundaries of segregation, the 'aspiring class' of Black Chicagoans suffered sustained harassment and violence from anonymous whites Cooley's book traces this oppression well into the twentieth century.
* South Side Weekly *
Cooley's study provides a fresh approach to a well-covered subject and is a welcome addition to the literature.
* Journal of American History *
Moving Up, Moving Out tells an important and concise story that points to the interworkings of America's caste system.The study will work well in an undergraduate or graduate classroom interested in the workings of racial capitalism.The study will work well in an undergraduate or graduate classroom interested in the workings of racial capitalism Overall, Moving Up, Moving Out tells an important and concise story that points to the interworkings of America's caste system
* The Journal of African American History *
