Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 22 Issue 1

Volume XXII Issue I Version I 16 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 © 2022 Global Journals C The Revanchist City: Downtown Chicago and the Rhetoric of Redevelopment in Bronzeville creation and reproduction of a middle and White ruling class elite consumer base in Bronzeville, as well as a space of cultural consumption for tourists. This process entails a history of interlocking linkages between local, state, and federal resources tied to private developers, banks, real estate companies, savings and loan companies, and local media to construct a local growth machine to ultimately weed out the urban poor and minorities (Feagin and Parker, 1990; Palen and London, 1984). The effort in this paper is to expose how a well known policy of racial segregation in Chicago can be hidden by the rhetoric and language of safety and community quality while eliding the city’s direct role in orchestrating historical plans for the contemporary demise of low-income, working poor, and indigent Blacks in Bronzeville (Vanketash, 2000). R eferences R éférences R eferencias 1. Alonso, William, “The Current Halt in the Metropolitan Phenomenon.” In Charles L. Leven, ed., The Mature Metropolis pp. 30-45. Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath-Lexington Books. 2. Chicago Central Area Committee and The City of Chicago, Chicago Central Area Plan: A Plan for the Heart of the City , 1983 3. Chicago Housing Authority: Plan for Transformation, 2000-2004 4. Chicago Reader “Whose Blues Will They Choose,” December 1, 2000. 5. Clark, Terry N. and Ferguson, L.C., City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment. New York: Columbia University Press 1983 6. Cohen, Adam and Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh. Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation. Boston/New York/London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000 7. Drake, St. Clair and Cayton, Horace, The Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City Vol. 1. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1945 8. Feagin, Joe R., and Parker, Robert, 2 nd edition Building American Cities: The Urban Real Estate Game , New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990 9. Grimshaw, William J ., Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine 1931-1991. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992 10. Harvey, David, Consciousness and the Urban Experience , Baltimor: John Hopkins University Press, 1985 11. Hirsch, Arnold R., The Making of the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago: 1940-1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998 12. Lefebvre, Henri, Everyday Life in the Modern World, New York: Harper and Row, 1971 13. Logan, John R. and Molotch Harvey L., Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987 14. Louik/Schneider & Associates, Inc., City of Chicago: Bronzeville Redevelopment Plan and Project, City of Chicago, June 9, 1998 15. Louik/Schneider & Associates, Inc., 47 th and King Drive Redevelopment Plan and Project, January 8, City of Chicago, 2002 16. Mahoney, Martha R., “Residential Segregation and White Privilege,” in Delgado, Richard and Stefancic, Jean White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997 pp. 267-272 17. Manley, Jr. Theodoric and Dube, Caleb, “The Impact of Globalization on the African American Community in Chicago,” 2001 Working Paper 18. Massey, Douglas and Denton, Nancy A., American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993 19. Mayor Richard M. Daley's Speeches, May 28, 1998; June 27, 2000; August 1, 2000; February 9, 2002. Cityofchicago.org 20. McKenzie, Roderick D., “The Ecological Approach to the study of the Human Community” American Journal of Sociology , vol. 30, no. 3 November, 1924 21. Mele, Christopher, Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate and Resistance in New York City . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000 22. National Center on Poverty Law, “Hearing on Hope VI and the Low-Income Housing Crisis: Testimony by William Wilen,” November 10, 2003 23. Neal, Mark Anthony, What The Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture , New York and London: Routledge, 1999 24. Omi, Michael and Winant, Howard, 2 nd edition Racial Formation in the United States London: Routledge, 1994 25. Palen, John L., and London, Bruce, Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization , Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984 26. Park, Robert E., Burgess, E.W and McKenzie R.D., The City , 1925. Regional Survey of New York and its Environs , 8 vols. 1927-31. 27. Reed, Adolph, Jr. Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post Segregation Era . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 28. Robert Taylor Homes – Phase A 2001 HOPE VI Application June 22, 2001 29. Smith, Neil and LeFaivre, Michele, “A Class Analysis of Gentrification,” in Palen, John L., and London, Bruce, Gentrification, Displacement and