Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods

Crime and gentrification are among the most hotly-contested urban issues in American cities. In Us versus Them, Jan Doering examines both, showing how residents, activists, and politicians clashed over these issues and especially over how race factored into both. The book draws on extensive fieldwork to produce a comprehensive and vivid portrait of community conflict in two racially-diverse Chicago neighborhoods. In doing so, it provides new insights intohow residents use the criminal justice system to fight crime but advance gentrification in the process.

• | Author: Jan Doering
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: February 27, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 019006658X
• | ISBN-13: 9780190066581