course materials

1. What social forces and contexts (of race, class, migration, and politics)
helped
What social forces and contexts (of race, class, migration, and politics) helped the Hamburgs
gain political legitimacy, economic power and social status in Chicago? What factors,
including but not limited to race, held back the Vice Lords from following a similar
trajectory/path as the Hamburgs? More generally, how did housing inequality in the mid-
late 20th Century help recreate racial inequality in terms of class, and in relation to crime
and the CJ system? What similarities/differences in terms of race and class are there
between the story of the Hamburgs/Vice Lords and the process of suburbanization?