047 - Regional Spotlight Session. Social Inequality, Racial Isolation and the Windy City

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

How are we to think about the social inequality and racial isolation that has refined the topography of Chicago in the last 30-40 years? What can empirical research (quantitative data, selected urban case studies, ethnographic, and meso- and micro-level research) tell us about these dynamics and how can theory organize these empirical findings? This session explores these questions through a multiplicity of perspectives—immigration, growing cultural diversity, gentrification of the central zones of the city, residential shifts in housing, exacerbating levels of racial and economic isolation, and new modes of policing and social control. While patterns of social inequality and racial isolation are taking place in other cities, panelist will discuss their work and ideas on how the Chicago experience teaches us broader lessons about social inequality relating to continuity and change.

Sub Unit

• Regional Spotlight

Session Organizers

• Black Hawk Hancock, DePaul University

• Roberta T. Garner, DePaul University

Presider

• Black Hawk Hancock, DePaul University

Presenters

• Eric Klinenberg, New York University

• Mario Luis Small, Harvard University

• Bryan L. Sykes, University of California-Irvine

• Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University

Discussant

• Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Columbia University