Inter-group conflict in Chicago: The intersection of ethnicity and economic restructuring at the neighborhood level

In this study, I examine group conflict between African Americans and Mexican Americans over resources such as employment, housing, and education. A case study approach is implemented, focusing on the inner-city neighborhood of Lawndale located on Chicago's West Side. With the intensification of economic restructuring in the early 1980's, the two population groups in Lawndale increasingly competed for control of the neighborhood's dwindling resource base. I investigate two interrelated research questions: (1) what is the link between the economic restructuring of the Chicago metropolitan region and declining interethnic relations in Lawndale and (2) in reaction to a deteriorating resource base, how has socially constructed ethnicity constituted relations between Blacks and Mexicans, forming the primary axis of community division in the competition for resources.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Browning, Jeremy Denton

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wilson, David

• Geography
• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1994 Browning, Jeremy Denton

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9512310
(UMI)AAI9512310

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19978