Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Linda Gartz
(Author)
Description
Redlined exposes the outcome of racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of their neighborhood's racial change. Based on long-hidden letters and diaries, this vivid memoir cracks open and lays bare complicated truths of marriage, sexual freedom, and race relations in a devastated landscape.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
She Writes Press
Publish Date
April 03, 2018
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.4 X 1.0 inches | 1.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781631523205
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About the Author
Six-time Emmy-honored Linda Gartz is a documentary producer, author, blogger, educator, and archivist. Her documentaries and TV productions have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Investigation Discovery, syndicated nation-wide. Her educational videos include Begin with Love, hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Grandparenting, hosted by Maya Angelou. Gartz's articles and essays have been published in literary journals, online, and in local and national magazines and newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune. Born in Chicago, she studied at both Northwestern and the University of Munich, and has lived most of her adult life in Evanston, IL. She earned her B.A. and M.A.T. degrees from Northwestern.
Reviews
Awards The Chicago Writers Association's Indie Nonfiction Book of 2018
Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2018
An Amazon Best-Seller
2018 First Place Nonfiction, Illinois Woman's Press Association, Mate E. Palmer Award
2018 Sarton Women's Book Awards finalist in Memoir
2018 Readers' Favorites Book Awards Silver Medal in Non-Fiction―Social Issues
2018 International Book Awards Finalist in Multicultural Non-Fiction
2018 New York Book Festival Award: Honorable Mention, Biography/Autobiography
2019 Chanticleer JOURNEY Book Awards First-Place Winner in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir
2019 IPPY Silver Medal Winner in Autobiography/Memoir II (Coming of Age/Family Legacy/Travel)
2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist in Current Events/Social Change
2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist in E-Book Non-fiction
2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist in The da Vinci Eye
2019 Foreword Indies Finalist in Adult Nonfiction―Family & Relationships
2019 Foreword Indies Finalist in Adult Nonfiction―Multicultural Redlined is now included in the Smithsonian Institution's libraries at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Editorial Reviews "Linda Gartz's memoir Redlined offers a 'ringside seat to black/white race relations and the racist mortgage policies that help explain why this intractable social issue remains with us into the 21st century.'"
-The Atlantic "A stunning debut memoir . . . . A rich remembrance of a captivating, transformative era in American history."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review ". . . an exceptionally rich and readable memoir of family, change, and coming of age in the tumultuous 1960s."
--Foreword Clarion Reviews, Five Stars "Redlined is absolutely riveting from cover to cover, all but impossible to put down."
--Midwest Book Review, Reviewer's Choice "I didn't just love reading this memoir, I appreciated it. . . . Redlined is a beacon of enlightenment in our current American society. I finished Gartz's memoir feeling educated and hopeful."
--Readers' Favorite, Five Stars "In this compelling journey into the depths of racism, Linda Gartz peels back the onion of America's original sin to a new level in a captivating personal story told through the lives of her Chicago family. Gartz probes the invisible web of oppression that affected both whites and blacks. Redlining destroyed the American dream without its victims even knowing it."
--Bill Kurtis, author of Bill Kurtis On Assignment and The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice, Peabody and Emmy Award-winner, news anchor for CBS Television network, and TV host for A&E "Many watched from afar as Chicago and other major cities underwent rapid racial change in mid-twentieth century America. Linda Gartz lived it . . . with her sharp eye, excellent writing, and unique perspective, she brings this critical and turbulent period to life."
--Steve Fiffer, coauthor of Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America "Moving and empathetic, Linda Gartz's memoir illuminates the inner worlds of two generations of white working-class Chicagoans as the daughter of landlords who remained in a struggling black community long after their white neighbors had fled . . . a deeply humane perspective on [how] economic need, racism, and ideals of duty shaped the lives of urban white Americans in the twentieth century."
--Beryl Satter, Professor, Department of History, Rutg
Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2018
An Amazon Best-Seller
2018 First Place Nonfiction, Illinois Woman's Press Association, Mate E. Palmer Award
2018 Sarton Women's Book Awards finalist in Memoir
2018 Readers' Favorites Book Awards Silver Medal in Non-Fiction―Social Issues
2018 International Book Awards Finalist in Multicultural Non-Fiction
2018 New York Book Festival Award: Honorable Mention, Biography/Autobiography
2019 Chanticleer JOURNEY Book Awards First-Place Winner in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir
2019 IPPY Silver Medal Winner in Autobiography/Memoir II (Coming of Age/Family Legacy/Travel)
2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist in Current Events/Social Change
2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist in E-Book Non-fiction
2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist in The da Vinci Eye
2019 Foreword Indies Finalist in Adult Nonfiction―Family & Relationships
2019 Foreword Indies Finalist in Adult Nonfiction―Multicultural Redlined is now included in the Smithsonian Institution's libraries at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Editorial Reviews "Linda Gartz's memoir Redlined offers a 'ringside seat to black/white race relations and the racist mortgage policies that help explain why this intractable social issue remains with us into the 21st century.'"
-The Atlantic "A stunning debut memoir . . . . A rich remembrance of a captivating, transformative era in American history."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review ". . . an exceptionally rich and readable memoir of family, change, and coming of age in the tumultuous 1960s."
--Foreword Clarion Reviews, Five Stars "Redlined is absolutely riveting from cover to cover, all but impossible to put down."
--Midwest Book Review, Reviewer's Choice "I didn't just love reading this memoir, I appreciated it. . . . Redlined is a beacon of enlightenment in our current American society. I finished Gartz's memoir feeling educated and hopeful."
--Readers' Favorite, Five Stars "In this compelling journey into the depths of racism, Linda Gartz peels back the onion of America's original sin to a new level in a captivating personal story told through the lives of her Chicago family. Gartz probes the invisible web of oppression that affected both whites and blacks. Redlining destroyed the American dream without its victims even knowing it."
--Bill Kurtis, author of Bill Kurtis On Assignment and The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice, Peabody and Emmy Award-winner, news anchor for CBS Television network, and TV host for A&E "Many watched from afar as Chicago and other major cities underwent rapid racial change in mid-twentieth century America. Linda Gartz lived it . . . with her sharp eye, excellent writing, and unique perspective, she brings this critical and turbulent period to life."
--Steve Fiffer, coauthor of Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America "Moving and empathetic, Linda Gartz's memoir illuminates the inner worlds of two generations of white working-class Chicagoans as the daughter of landlords who remained in a struggling black community long after their white neighbors had fled . . . a deeply humane perspective on [how] economic need, racism, and ideals of duty shaped the lives of urban white Americans in the twentieth century."
--Beryl Satter, Professor, Department of History, Rutg
