| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side. By Amanda I. Seligman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-74663-1. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-226-74665-8.)
Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, Chicagoans assembled the most animated grass roots organizing movement in the most segregated city in the United States. At the heart of the struggle over Chicago neighborhoods is "white flight," the elephant in the bedroom and a staple feature of post–World War II urban America.	1
In most accounts of the neighborhood organizing movement, Chicago looms in the background as a taken-for-granted constant, a stage set for the unfolding of historical dramas. Its neighborhoods are fixed points of reference around which movements erupt, spin out, deflate, and erupt anew. For the urban historian Amanda I. Seligman, however, the making and unmaking of Chicago neighborhoods is precisely the stage on which these dramas must be examined. In Block by Block, the contested nature of urban place is the point of departure for understanding neighborhood organization in the American city.	. . .

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