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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"the South Side of Chicago"”.
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South of Eden: The Limitations and Possibilities of Interracial Solidarity on the South Side of Chicago
While studies of intergroup race relations remain central to the scholarly inquiry, the literature typically focuses on conflictual race relations and white groups’ views and treatment of the racialized other. Departing from such tendencies, this project examines how racial solidarity emerges …
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CREATING COMPREHENSIVE WRAP-AROUND SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY: EXPLORING NETWORK ACTIVITY AMONG SHELTERS AND SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE SOUTH-SIDE OF CHICAGO
<p>We may not all agree that the homeless community is increasing and that their essential needs to survive such as food, healthcare and housing are quality of life rights for everyone. We must adopt the compassion of the medical industry and understand the importance of how community programs and …
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Englewood survival: Black mothers’ coping and resiliency
This dissertation analyzes the lived experiences of 62 Black mothers living and surviving in Englewood, an impoverished neighborhood with high levels of violence on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. The interviews were analyzed using aspects of grounded theory and with the goal to learn more …
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
The COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020 coincided with significant social unrest following the state killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. This period saw wide-spread protests against systemic racism and police brutality, leading to various corporate and institutional responses, …
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A view of the Green Line: a renewal plan for visual experience in Chicago’s South Side stations
… special visual qualities. Riders can see how the city is organized, the shape of the city`s skyline, city land use, and most important, how the city relates to itself. This thesis uses a phenomenological approach to visual theory that expands upon the seminal work of Appleyard, Lynch et al …
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The marginalization project
<p>The vast majority of African American residents in Chicago, Illinois reside in low food access areas particularly on the South and West Sides of the city. There are overwhelmingly high rates poverty, residential segregation, and limitations to quality of food. Through remapping abandoned spaces …
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A policy story of continuity and change : reflections on the Obama Administration's Metropolitan Agenda
President Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009 and within the first month of his presidency, against a backdrop of staggering concerns about financial reform, energy efficiency, and the need to allocate $787 billion dollars of stimulus funds, he began to focus the form and function of …