**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City
In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities through the stories of people who reside there. The South Side shows the impact of Chicago's historic segregation - and the ongoing policies that keep the system intact.
BIO
Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. She is available for speeches or keynotes on these issues.
Natalie’s acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation received the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and was Buzzfeed’s best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.
She is a 2021 USA Fellow. The Pulitzer Center named her a 2020 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow for international reporting. In 2021, University of Chicago Center for Effective Government (CEG), based at the the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, welcomed her in its first cohort of Senior Practitioner Fellows. Natalie teaches as an adjunct at Northwestern University. In spring 2023, she was playwright-in-residence at Chicago State University in conjunction with Chicago Dramatists. CD named her a playwright-in-residence in 2023 and bestowed her with the inaugural Lydia Diamond award.
Natalie’s work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region. She is a sought-after speaker for high school assemblies, colleges, foundations, churches, festivals and community groups. Natalie is still thrilled Alex Trebek said her name. In 2019, Natalie and her book were a “Jeopardy” clue.
REVIEWS
"An excellent work for all readers interested in knowing more about important, ongoing urban issues." -- Library Journal
“Thoughtful and clarifying investigation … Moore refines our perception of the realities of segregation and the many possible paths to change.” -- Booklist
"Natalie Moore's The South Side is an exquisite exploration of a portion of Chicago that has long embodied the problems and promise of black America. Moore brings her considerable gifts as a journalist and historian to bear along with her knowledge as a South Side native. Moore's latest is essential to anyone attempting to understand race in Chicago, our most American of cities." -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me
"Moore has captured the rhythm of Chicago, its beauty and heartbreak, and its racial demons and activist angels with such vibrant prose and personality that she has achieved that rare literary feat: it is both a page-turner and magnum opus. By traveling to the South Side with her, we not only understand why it has been able to produce some of our nation’s most exceptional African American leaders, but also how its ongoing racial segregation haunts and harms the vast majority of Chicagoans today.” --Salamishah Tillet, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
"In a highly readable, conversational style, Moore demonstrates refreshing candor about how racial inequality infuses every aspect of daily life." -- Kirkus Reviews
**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
[P] Picador USA / April 04, 2017
0.8" H x 8.2" L x 5.4" W (0.5 lbs) 272 pages