CLAS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Leymah Gbowee, Federal Housing Administration, Flag Of Chicago
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Lysistrata read aloud as a kind of protest. Mainstream focus of greek tragedy in 20s b/c comedy was censored. Shut down ater a day and a half. She has been criicized for looking for publicity. >vs other lysistrata posters where female bodies are pieced apart and objeciied. >smaller ciies have higher murder rates per capita than chicago. >but chicago is biggest american city struggling with high homicide rates. Systemic racism in chicago: a century of segregaion. =african-americans leeing the south leads to convergence in chicago between. European immigrants and african americans and war veterans. Naional housing act of 1934 (home owner"s loan redline district = certain areas deemed unstable no investment allowed in these areas or people in these areas can"t get mortgages for these areas) Housing act of 1937 = new deal building program for low-cost housing, hastening segregaion. Gi bill = guaranteed home loans to returning veterans, but excluded africa americans through racist realtor and bank policies.
