Race + Housing Resource Page
We invite you to learn more about the intersection of Race + Housing with our curated list of books, videos, and other media. Click on each category for a dropdown list of recommendations.
Books (click to expand)
- Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification by Mike Amezcua
- High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing* by Ben Austen
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the America City by Matthew Desmond
- The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago* by Daniel Kay Hertz
- The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation* by Natalie Y. Moore
- Know Your Price by Andre M. Perry
- The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood* by Carlo Rotella
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard and Leah Rothstein
- Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America* by Beryl Satter
- Chicago's Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City* by Amanda I. Seligman
- Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect* by Robert J. Sampson
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Podcasts (click to expand)
- 'We Know Promises Were Broken': Cabrini-Green After Demolition by City Cast Chicago
- How Chicago’s racial housing segregation took billions from Black Americans by Reset with Sasha Ann Simons
- Legally Stolen Series by National Public Housing Museum
- Department of Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara; Moving Chicago Forward by Straight Up Chicago Investor
Research (click to expand)
- The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago: New Findings on the Lasting Toll of Predatory Housing Contracts (download link) by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University
- Chicago Housing Overview: Preserving Affordability and Expanding Accessibility by the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University
- The Cost of Segregation by the Metropolitan Planning Council
- Maps of Inequality: From Redlining to Urban Decay and the Black Exodus by Cook County Treasurer, Maria Pappas
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