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.
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.