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.
-
Willie "J.R." Fleming
-
Tonika Lewis Johnson
-
Learn and support her projects: Folded Map Project, Inequity for Sale, and Belonging Chicago.
-
-
Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara
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
-
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
Videos (click to expand)
Podcasts (click to expand)
-
'We Know Promises Were Broken': Cabrini-Green After Demolition by City Cast Chicago
-
Scouring records of Chicago segregation by Crain's Daily Gist
-
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 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
Have recommendations? Email us.
