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1945, Soft Cover, 858 pages
Groundbreaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration fieldworkers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago’s South Side, the classic urban ghetto. Drake and Clayton’s findings not only offer a generalized analysis of black migration, settlement, and community structure, and of black-white race relations, but also tell us what had changed in the last hundred years and what had not.
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