Structuring Inequality

Tracy L. Steffes is associate professor of education and history at Brown University. She is the author of School, Society, & State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890–1940.  

Introduction: Structuring Inequality in Chicagoland

Part I: Forging Metropolitan Inequality
Chapter 1: The State Policies That Define Localism, Public Schools, and Fragmentation in the Suburbs
Chapter 2: Chicago’s Postwar Development Agenda: Using Schools, Land-Use Tools, and Public Subsidies to Protect White Property

Part II: Fighting over Metropolitan Inequality
Chapter 3: Fighting Chicago School Segregation: The Battles to Define Northern Segregation, Government Responsibility, and Public Priorities
Chapter 4: Varieties of School Desegregation: Defining State Responsibility and Protecting White Interests in the Fragmented Suburbs
Chapter 5: The Fight to Open the Suburbs: Fair- and Affordable-Housing Advocacy and the Suburban Defense of Metropolitan Inequality
Chapter 6: School-Finance and Property-Tax Reform: Trying to Expand State Fiscal Responsibility and Equity in Local Finance

Part III: Forgetting Metropolitan Inequality
Chapter 7: The Policy Origins and Effects of Fiscal Crisis: Taxation, Austerity, and Business-First Economic Development in Chicagoland
Chapter 8: From Equity to Measurable Standards: Reshaping Public Policy and Forgetting Inequality in a Neoliberal Age

Conclusion: What Does This History Mean for the Present and the Future?

Acknowledgments
Appendix
Source Abbreviations
Notes
Index