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

Author: Natalie Y. Moore

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2016

Synopsis

Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have touted and promoted Chicago as a "world-class city." The skyscrapers kissing the clouds, the billion-dollar Millennium Park, Michelin-rated restaurants, pristine lake views, fabulous shopping, vibrant theater scene, downtown flower beds, and stellar architecture tell one story. Yet, swept under the rug is the stench of segregation that compromises Chicago. The Manhattan Institute dubs Chicago as one of the most segregated big cities in the country. Though other cities—including Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Baltimore—can fight over that mantle, it's clear that segregation defines Chicago. And unlike many other major U.S. cities, no one race dominates. Chicago is divided equally into black, white, and Latino, each group clustered in their various turfs.

In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation on the South Side of Chicago through reported essays, showing the life of these communities through the stories of people who live in them. The South Side shows the important impact of Chicago's historic segregation and the ongoing policies that keep it that way.

About Natalie Y. Moore

Natalie Y. Moore is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, the NPR-member station in Chicago, where she's known as the South Side Lois Lane. Before joining WBEZ, she covered Detroit City Council for Detroit News. She worked as an education reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and a reporter for the Associated Press in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Essence, Black Enterprise, the Chicago Reporter, In These Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ang

100% required reading if you a) live in Chicago, b) have ever lived in Chicago, c) are interested in Chicago, d) care at all about Chicago, e) care at all about the way Chicago was segregated by its corrupt government...etc etc etc. Natalie Moore has written this really, really readable book, and I c......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I remember Roger Ebert commenting on criticism of the movie Hotel Rwanda. There were people who said the movie didn't do enough to convey the broader story of the totality of the horror of the genocide in Rwanda. Ebert noted that sometimes it is more effective to focus on the a specific story to giv......more

Goodreads review by Emily

I've lived in Chicago since the age of 18, and spent 30 years in the Beverly neighborhood on Chicago's south side where author Natalie Moore went to school. It is a rare integrated neighborhood on the south side, since whites there were smart enough to realize that it made no sense to keep running a......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Natalie Moore gives us a report on the part of Chicago that she grew up in--the South Side. What made it most interesting for me is that she added her personal perspective to the story. I think the main problem that she identifies is one that is hard to dispute--and that is the severe segregation in......more

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