—Starred Kirkus Review

“. . . A captivating personal story told through the lives of her Chicago family, Gartz probes the invisible web of oppression that affected both whites and blacks. Redlining destroyed the American dream without its victims even knowing. But through the investigative work of Linda Gartz now we know.”
—Bill Kurtis, author, Peabody and Emmy Award-winner, journalist, producer, narrator, and news anchor for the CBS Television Network, and TV host for A&E

“Gartz’s unflinching family memoir offers both intimacy and insight into personal and historical injustices. She deftly interweaves a story of family striving, domestic resentments, and individual decency with the seismic cultural shifts of America’s social and sexual revolutions.”
—Amanda I. Seligman, chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side

“Many watched from afar as Chicago and other major cities underwent rapid racial change in mid-twentieth century America. Linda Gartz lived it. . . . With her sharp eye, excellent writing, and unique perspective, she brings this critical and turbulent period to life.”
—Steve Fiffer, coauthor of Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America

“At every level this is an important story of personal hardship and societal blindness . . . ultimately intersecting with what has become the essential national topic, the racism that weaves itself through all our personal and shared histories.”
—Jim Grimsley, author of How I Shed My Skin

“Fearless and precise, Gartz has written a book that is impossible to put down. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”
—Sharon Solwitz, author of Once, in Lourdes

“Moving and deeply empathetic, Linda Gartz’s memoir illuminates the inner worlds of two generations of white working-class Chicagoans . . . who remained in a struggling black community long after their white neighbors had fled. The result is a deeply humane perspective on the ways that economic need, racism, and ideals of duty shaped the lives of urban white Americans in the twentieth century.”
—Beryl Satter, professor, Department of History, Rutgers University, and author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

“In this remarkable memoir, Linda Gartz . . .[is] committed to finding the truth at every turn. [She] tracks not only her own experiences, but also the social and cultural changes that reshaped twentieth-century America.”
—Fred Shafer, School of Professional Studies, Northwestern University

“Deftly weaving together a treasure trove of detailed first-hand accounts, [Linda Gartz] provides an absorbing view into the life of a family unwittingly caught up in both its own domestic struggles and the turbulent social reckonings of the 1960s.”
—Anjali Sachdeva, author of All the Names They Used for God

“With tender and open-eyed concern, Linda Gartz adeptly explores how the human need for recognition and equality is waylaid both by doors slammed against legal access and connection and by the tyrannies of power wielded behind closed doors.”
—Anne Calcagno, professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of Love Like a Dog

“Deeply personal yet wide in scope, Linda seamlessly blends her parents’ struggles as landlords on Chicago’s West Side with the injustices imposed on African Americans by racist housing policies. Redlined is a vivid and historic account of rapid racial change in the community Linda and I have both called home.”
—Mary Nelson, founding president of Bethel New Life, and faculty at Asset Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University (Chicago)