Rebecca Janowitz - Culture of Opportunity: Obama's Chicago - The People, Politics & Ideas of Hyde Park

Start: 05/19/2010 5:00 pm

Rebecca Janowitz's portrait of Hyde Park - the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics - offers an expert, insider's social and political perspective on this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obama's political career and made possible his run for the presidency. Sixty years ago - due to a major community grassroots organizing effort, followed by a publicly funded urban renewal program - the Hyde Park-Kenwood area of Chicago emerged as a diverse, politically confident community in a key lakefront location within a city noted for its segregated neighborhoods, cultivating a rich and congenial cultural tradition.

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