In "Structuring Inequality," historian Tracy L. Steffes shows how metropolitan inequality in Chicagoland was structured, contested, and naturalized over time even as reformers tried to change it through school desegregation, affordable housing, and property tax reform. Grounded in comprehensive archival research and policy analysis, this book examines the history of Chicagoland’s established systems of inequality and provides perspective on the inequality we live with today.
Tracy L. Steffes is a Professor of Education and History at Brown University. Her primary research and teaching interests are twentieth-century United States history, the history of American education, and political and policy history.