Redlined A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago |
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Author:
| Gartz, Linda |
ISBN: | 978-1-63152-320-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2018 |
Publisher: | She Writes Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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Redlined exposes the outcome of racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of their neighborhood's racial change. Based on long-hidden letters and diaries, this vivid memoir cracks open and lays bare complicated truths of marriage, sexual freedom, and race relations in a devastated landscape.
Redlined exposes the outcome of racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of their neighborhood's racial change. Based on long-hidden letters and diaries, this vivid memoir cracks open and lays bare complicated truths of marriage, sexual freedom, and race relations in a devastated landscape.