A review by eengland
Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston by Mary Barr

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Riddled with typos but highly informative and decently researched and reflective/introspective but would have liked to see more scholarship by Black academics cited. People have been studying these structural issues for well over a century and I didn't get the feeling that this author read them very deeply, just a few of the catchier white scholars working in the same field.... which kinda makes the work purportedly being done here feel a bit disingenuous. Also it was maybe weird how she called the route that the houseless folks traverse around the Great Lakes in search of beds and aid "the Potawatomi trail". If that's not a racist thing to call it today with those connotations, it could have used a little more elucidation as to why/how so.

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