Summary
The US city whose racial and economic segregation, and whose intersecting race, class, ethnic and religious trajectories, Lybarger treats as a mechanism of Palestinian identity formation in exile (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.42).
Details
- Chicago’s population tripled from 109,000 in 1860 to 300,000 in 1870 and jumped to 1.1 million by 1890; by 1900 nearly four of five Chicagoans were foreign-born or children of the foreign-born, and its black population rose from approximately 30,000 in 1900 to nearly 234,000 in 1930, confined to the Black Belt along State Street (Abu-Lughod 1999, as cited) (PDF p.51-52).
- In the 1919 race riot, white gangs marauded through the Black Belt and order was restored only after twenty-three blacks and fifteen whites had died (PDF p.51-52).
- The hub of Palestinian immigrant life before the 1990s suburban exodus was a southwest corridor from South Kedzie Avenue and West 63rd Street, with a smaller North Side settlement between Montrose and Foster, Clark and Kimball, and Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues (Cainkar 1988, as cited) (PDF p.50).