Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto.
 
Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark book, Making the Second Ghetto. With compelling clarity, Hirsch demonstrated that segregation is not the inevitable result of individual choices, natural tendencies, or cultural traits—it is a structural phenomenon, reinforced on every level by state power.
 
Segregating Cities collects the author’s key essays, some previously unpublished, to reveal a more complete picture of a remarkable scholar and his exploration of race, place, politics, and policy in the twentieth-century American city. Together, these essays can help us see segregation for what it is, so that we can then begin to truly work to overcome it.

Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was the Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Endowed Chair for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans. The author of the influential Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960, Hirsch’s research showed how racism pervaded every stratum of American society. Thomas J. Sugrue is the Julius Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. He is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, and The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, as well as coauthor of These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present.

Editor’s Preface
Introduction: The Hard Work of Segregation: Arnold Hirsch and Critical Histories of Race by Thomas J. Sugrue

Part I: First and Second Ghettos
1. With or Without Jim Crow: Black Residential Segregation in the United States
2. E Pluribus Duo?: Thoughts on “Whiteness” and Chicago’s “New” Immigration as a Transient Third Tier
3. Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953–1966
4. Second Thoughts on the Second Ghetto

Part II: Aiming Low and Falling Short: Segregation and the State
5. “Containment” on the Home Front: Race and Federal Housing Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War
6. Searching for a “Sound Negro Policy”: A Racial Agenda for the Housing Acts of 1949 and 1954
7. “The Last and Most Difficult Barrier”: Segregation and Federal Housing Policy in the Eisenhower Administration, 1953–1960
8. Less Than Plessy: The Inner-City, Suburbs and State-Sanctioned Residential Segregation in the Age of Brown

Part III: The Devil Is in the Details: Segregation in Practice
9. Original Sins: Micro-Decisions and the Legacy of Segregation in Chicago’s Public Housing
10. Public Policy and Residential Segregation in Baltimore, 1910–1968
11. Race and Renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947–1968
Part IV: Race and Urban Politics
12. Chicago: The Cook County Democratic Organization and the Dilemma of Race, 1931–1987
13. Harold and Dutch Revisited: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans
Acknowledgments
Index