As if middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods like Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Moore’s own Chatham don’t exist, as if thousands of lawyers, doctors, judges, nurses, journalists, and college students don’t live south of I-55 in some of the most vibrant, “magical” communities in the city. In a fascinating blend of reportage and memoir, Moore shows how the socio-economic realities on the South Side-where the unemployed often stay unemployed, the working class often stays working-class, and the middle and upper-middle class face challenges unknown to the North Side-are the direct results of racist housing and banking policies, retail redlining, food deserts, public school failures, and misrepresentations in the media.īut also, Moore describes how, by and large, the South Side isn’t the “war zone” oft-depicted on Fox News or CNN, where all 42 neighborhoods are reduced to the worst blocks of Englewood on a hot summer night. Moore’s new book, The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation-an absolutely essential read for all Chicagoans, new and old-is full of revelations about how Chicago became (and remains) one of the most segregated cities in the world. Moore shares an excerpt from her latest book, 'The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. Email our Director of Family Engagement LaTonya Hill at by Friday, May 20 to RSVP for our next UChicago Charter Book Club and receive the book The South Side by Natalie Y.
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