| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Canada and the United States

Amanda I. Seligman. Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 301. $25.00.

The racial transformation of the urban environment is a major theme in late twentieth-century U.S. social and political history. The Great Migration not only helped to transform previously all-white neighborhoods into predominantly black communities but also fueled the white exodus to outlying suburbs. In the burgeoning popular and scholarly literature on this subject, the notion of "white flight" occupies a central place. In this book, Amanda I. Seligman reminds us that the rise of a predominantly black neighborhood on Chicago's West Side was the product of contingent historical forces. She argues that a primary focus on "white flight" underplays the complexity of white motivations and responses to neighborhood change. In her view, with the arrival of African Americans, white West Siders added race to an already existing spectrum of discontents with their postwar neighborhoods.

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