The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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Natalie Y. Moore. (2016). The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Natalie Y. Moore. 2016. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Natalie Y. Moore, The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

Natalie Y. Moore. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: NATALIE Y. MOORE is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, the NPR-member station in Chicago, where she's known as the South Side Lois Lane. Before joining WBEZ, she covered Detroit City Council for the Detroit News. She has also worked as an education reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and a reporter for the Associated Press in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Essence, Black Enterprise, the Chicago Reporter, Bitch, In These Times, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Chicago, IL.
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**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City
In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities through the stories of people who reside there. The South Side shows the impact of Chicago's historic segregation - and the ongoing policies that keep the system intact.

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     **One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
     **Author named a 2021 United States Artist Fellow in Writing**
     
     "Moore, a longtime reporter for WBEZ in Chicago and a native of the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, digs into the ways that segregation continues to shape the politics of her hometown, as well as her own life."

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   • content: "Moore...weaves her life story through a well-researched account of the policies that have shaped Chicago into a city often described as separate and unequal."
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   • content: "A reminder that even though great gains have been made in the development of integrated neighborhoods and suburbs, Chicago is still shackled by the chains of segregation, chains that limit the potential of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans and impoverish the lives of all residents of the region...a clarion call for us to break the chains that bind us and allow our imaginations to be free to take on -- and change -- the systemic reality of segregation and its impact on all of us."
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     Starred review from January 15, 2016
     A journalist who grew up comfortably in a black South Side Chicago neighborhood examines how racial segregation harms everybody. Moore (co-author: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang, 2011, etc.) is a radio reporter in her beloved yet racially divided city of Chicago. "The legacy of segregation and its ongoing policies keep Chicago divided," she writes. In this deep-dive examination of segregation's many negative impacts (in neighborhoods, schools, retail businesses, crime, and politics), the author combines third-person journalism and intensely personal first-person sharing. Chicago has always been a city of neighborhoods (black, white ethnic Irish, white ethnic Polish, Chinese, etc.), which sounds charming. Unfortunately, those neighborhoods tend to serve as mainly impenetrable enclaves unfriendly to outsiders. The focus has intensified since 2008, given that Michelle Obama grew up in a black Chicago neighborhood and Barack Obama launched his political career in a segregated political environment. In the first-person chapter "Notes from a Black Gentrifier," Moore wrestles with how to alter the status quo, especially regarding housing. "I represented the wave of young black professionals moving in during the 2000s," she writes, "buying in to a historical legacy...and the change to usher in an urban resurgence." Moore regularly challenges white stereotypes of blacks while simultaneously explaining how relatively well-to-do blacks stereotype less-fortunate individuals of the same race. That is especially true in her chapter about violent crime, "We Are Not Chiraq" (a combination of "Chicago" and "Iraq"). The chapter on the lack of high-quality grocery stores in black neighborhoods breaks new ground in a long-simmering discussion about food deserts. The pages about Whole Foods making a surprising decision to open a store in a black South Side neighborhood are also fresh. In a highly readable, conversational style, Moore demonstrates refreshing candor about how racial inequality infuses every aspect of daily life.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Moore, WBEZ's South Side reporter, documents the various ways in which the racial segregation of Chicago's neighborhoods has come to define this Midwestern city. Moore, a South Side resident herself, narrates an excellent history of residential as well as educational segregation within Chicago, despite the legal remedies that the courts have offered. The author believes that institutional racism, more than the class of the city's residents, has made it difficult for African Americans to advance in life, as other groups have done historically. Interviews with local business owners and teachers add much to strengthen Moore's arguments of tracing the efforts of residents to battle institutionalized racism. Moore incorporates stories of growing up in a middle-class household into the essays, which at times intrudes too much into the narrative and gives the book a false note, but this is a minor point. More important is that Moore focuses much of her discussions on productive solutions to problems, including the "food deserts" that affect cities such as Chicago, ways in which schools can be healthy institutions, and how neighborhoods can work together to improve lives. VERDICT An excellent work for all readers interested in knowing more about important, ongoing urban issues.--Amy Lewontin, Northeastern Univ. Lib., Boston

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     March 15, 2016
     A proud South Side native and South Side bureau reporter for Chicago's NPR station, WBEZ, Moore seeks to dispel misconceptions about this large and diverse community, the heart of black America and a prime example of the consequences of persistent racial segregation. Moore tells the story of her African American family and their invisible lives in a middle-class neighborhood, a veritable black cocoon. Their experiences play in counterpoint to her thoughtful and clarifying investigation into the sources of the chronic economic and social afflictions plaguing most of the South Side and other segregated urban areas across the country, beginning with discriminatory banking and real-estate practices. Moore vividly, even poetically, describes neighborhood scenes bright and bleak; cites intriguing studies; conducts telling interviews about Chicago's public-housing debacle, struggling public schools, and the effort to eradicate food deserts; and critiques inaccurate, racialized media coverage. By bringing the South Side into focus as a place people cherish as home in spite of systematically racist obstacles to their well-being, Moore refines our perception of the realities of segregation and the many possible paths to change.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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