@article{438673, author = {Smith, Preston H.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438673}, title = {Racial democracy and the black metropolis housing policy in postwar Chicago / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {University of Minnesota Press,}, abstract = {The African American community. The black position. In accounts of black politics after the Second World War, these phrases reflect how the African American perspective generally appeared consistent, coherent, and unified. In Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis, Preston H. Smith II examines housing debates in Chicago that go beyond black and white politics, and he shows how class and factional conflicts among African Americans actually helped to reproduce stunning segregation along economic lines.}, recid = {438673}, pages = {1 online resource (xix, 433 p.)}, address = {Minneapolis, Minn. :}, year = {2012}, }