Derek G. HandleyStruggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024).  

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Joel Rast, The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago, (University of Chicago Press, 2019). 

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Amanda SeligmanChicago’s Block Clubs: New Neighbors Shape the City (University of Chicago Press, 2016).  

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Jennifer Jordan,  Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods, (University of Chicago Press, 2015). 

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Margo Anderson, Amanda Seligman, and Ann Graf, Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee, (Marquette University Press, 2014). 

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Joe Rodriguez, Bootstrap New Urbanism: Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee (Lexington, 2014).

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Arijit Sen  and Lisa Silverman, eds.,  Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City,  (Indiana University Press, 2014). 

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UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.