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Bezig met laden... Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicagodoor Linda Gartz
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  etxgardener | May 4, 2021 |   Now that it’s been nearly a half-century, as a country we’re actively looking back at the 60’s for lessons that can be learned, or at least accurate history revealed, for how some of today’s problems began, in an attempt to solve them once and for all—particularly race relations, particularly here in Chicago. Redlined is beautifully timed for that introspection. Set in the west side during the White Flight of the era, Gartz has fashioned an exquisite frame for how to tell the story of the insidious practice of Redlining in human terms. In a memoir of her family, inspired by the surprise discovery of hidden letters and diaries of her parents, Gartz has spun an ingenious story with macro/micro implications. As her parents refused to leave their home in a dangerously changing neighborhood rife with corrupt policies designed to keep out the very people who could have helped to stabilize the area, they served as societal stalwarts, though it cost them their marriage, and shattered a family. In a daughter’s quest to understand, Gartz has given us an important book of the times, of people who didn’t realize they were heroes, and of a city and a family that paid the price. (  ) RitaDragonette | Sep 11, 2018 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago's West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz's parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neighborhood, overcoming previous prejudices as they meet and form friendships with their African American neighbors. The community sinks into increasing poverty and crime after two race riots destroy its once vibrant business district, but Fred and Lil continue to nurture their three apartment buildings and tenants for the next twenty years in a devastated landscape--even as their own relationship cracks and withers. After her parents' deaths, Gartz discovers long-hidden letters, diaries, documents, and photos stashed in the attic of her former home. Determined to learn what forces shattered her parents' marriage and undermined her community, she searches through the family archives and immerses herself in books on racial change in American neighborhoods. Told through the lens of Gartz's discoveries of the personal and political, Redlined delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter's fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Unfortunately, Ms. Gartz also used this book as an opportunity to spin tales of her dysfunctional family, and quite honestly, I’m just not interested (