Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront Black & African American Women's Fiction if floundering

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Chanel Miller

” we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport

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Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront Black & African American Women's Fiction if flounderingOf the thirty miles of Lake Michigan shoreline within the city limits of Chicago, twenty four miles is public park land. The crown jewels of its park system, the lakefront parks bewitch natives and visitors alike with their brisk winds, shady trees, sandy beaches, and rolling waves. Like most good things, the protection of the lakefront parks didn't come easy, and this book chronicles the hard fought and never ending battles Chicago citizens have