Uptown; Poor Whites in Chicago
- ISBN-10
- 0060902353
- ISBN-13
- 9780060902353
- Pages
- 435
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Authors
- Todd Gitlin, Nanci Hollander
Description
Explores the area just off Chicago's Gold Coast, where live poor whites from Appalachia and the South. Describes the organization of a neighborhood group--JOIN--to fight gouging by landlords and merchants, the atrocities of the welfare system, the callousness of the local hospitals, and especially the brutality and corruption of Chicago police.
