{"product_id":"race-riot-9780252065866","title":"Race Riot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e'The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high-level policy, but in gut-level animosities between black and white people who were generally inarticulate and presentist-oriented, and who did not record their motivations or feelings for posterity. . . To explain the Chicago riot, this evidence has to be found; and though such evidence is not abundant by any means, it does exist.'--From the preface\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tuttle's catalogue of the causes of racial conflict in Chicago sounds depressingly up-to-date.\"-- Eric Foner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vividly written. A fine study with surprising appeal for the lay reader.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating and important study, as well researched and written and thought out as any this reviewer has seen in recent years.\"--Gilbert Osofsky, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One cannot fully understand the Chicago riot of 1919 or, indeed, the post-World War I racial strife without reading this important work.\"--John Hope Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\"This book has more lives than a cat because its feet are firmly planted on the bedrock issues of race and class, its analysis goes to the quick of urban-industrial life in the early twentieth century, and its vivid narrative captures the tumultuous riot without ever losing scholarly balance. A quarter century after it was first published, it has still not been excelled.\"--Alan Dawley, author of \u003ci\u003eStruggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400467095895,"sku":"9780252065866","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252065866.jpg?v=1730470755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-riot-9780252065866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}