American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Objectives
  3. History of De Jure Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Endnotes
  7. Bibliography for Teachers
  8. Reading List for Students
  9. Materials for Classroom Use
  10. Standards

A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond

Lea Stenson

Published September 2019

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Bibliography for Teachers

Austen, Ben. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.

New York: Harper, 2018.

Brooks, Richard R. W. and Carol M. Rose. Saving the Neighborhood: Racially

Restrictive Covenants, Law and Social Norms. Cambridge: Harvard University

Press, 2013.

Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic. June 2014.

Ewing, Eve L. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s

South Side. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making

of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Moore, Natalie Y. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Rothstein, Richard. “Modern Segregation.” Lecture, Reinventing the War on Poverty, Atlantic

Live Conference, Washington, D.C., March 6, 2014.

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government

Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

Satter, Beryl. Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed

Chicago and Urban America. New York: Picador, 2009.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. “How Real Estate Segregated America.” Dissent. Fall 2018.

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