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Analyzing the realities of race, ethnicity, and class in modern-day America, an incisive study examines four working- and lower-middle-class Chicago neighborhoods--African American, white ethnic, Latino, and one in transition--assessing how and why urban residents react to looming changes and what their reactions mean in terms of neighborhood stability.
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From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these riveting first-person narratives and the meticulous research which accompanies them reveal honest yet disturbing realities—ones that remind us why the elusive American dream of integrated neighborhoods remains a priority of race relations in our time.
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