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**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**

A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City

In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities through the stories of people who reside there. The South Side shows the impact of Chicago's historic segregation - and the ongoing policies that keep the system intact.

ISBN-13: 9781250118332

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Publication Date: 04-04-2017

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)

NATALIE Y. MOORE is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, the NPR-member station in Chicago. 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 was awarded the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library and Foundation in 2017. She lives in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Map of the South Side of Chicago xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1 A Legacy Threatened 11

2 Jim Crow in Chicago 35

3 A Dream Deferred 59

4 Notes from a Black Gentrifier 83

5 Separate and Still Unequal 109

6 Kale Is the New Collard 137

7 We Are Not Chiraq 159

8 Searching for Harold 183

9 Sweet Home Chicago 207

Notes 227

Bibliography 239

Index 243

Eight pages of photographs appear between pages 136 and 137.