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Review: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond

Review: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. By Andrew J. Diamond. (Oakland, University of California Press, 2017. 440 pp.) In this extensively researched and compellingly argued biography of twentieth-century Chicago, Andrew Diamond contends that the only way to understand the city, and American cities generally, is through the potent power of neoliberalism. In parsing the brutal past of a Chicago composed of two worlds, one white and affluent, the other poor and Black and increasingly Latinx, Diamond argues that party politics mattered far less than the city’s consistent move toward embracing neoliberalism. He characterizes neoliber- alism as the supremacy of free market principles and the rise of an “entrepreneurial state.” As evidenced in twentieth-century Chicago, neolib- eral policies included “deregulation, fiscal austerity .. . outsourcing of city services, market solutions to public problems, and the overriding view of residents as consumers.” While Diamond applauds urban historians for pushing the field beyond the bounds of the nation state and connecting American cities to more global trends, such as the movement of global capital, he uses Chicago on the Make and his analysis of neoliberalism to push the field in another direction— toward local politics, grassroots activism, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Historical Review University of California Press

Review: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond

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Pacific Historical Review , Volume 90 (2): 2 – May 1, 2021
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10.1525/phr.2021.90.2.271
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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. By Andrew J. Diamond. (Oakland, University of California Press, 2017. 440 pp.) In this extensively researched and compellingly argued biography of twentieth-century Chicago, Andrew Diamond contends that the only way to understand the city, and American cities generally, is through the potent power of neoliberalism. In parsing the brutal past of a Chicago composed of two worlds, one white and affluent, the other poor and Black and increasingly Latinx, Diamond argues that party politics mattered far less than the city’s consistent move toward embracing neoliberalism. He characterizes neoliber- alism as the supremacy of free market principles and the rise of an “entrepreneurial state.” As evidenced in twentieth-century Chicago, neolib- eral policies included “deregulation, fiscal austerity .. . outsourcing of city services, market solutions to public problems, and the overriding view of residents as consumers.” While Diamond applauds urban historians for pushing the field beyond the bounds of the nation state and connecting American cities to more global trends, such as the movement of global capital, he uses Chicago on the Make and his analysis of neoliberalism to push the field in another direction— toward local politics, grassroots activism,

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