51ÁÔÆæ Art Collection<\/a> and Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. \u201cThat\u2019s where you can start reconstructing these kinds of stories.\u201d<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a common misconception, Pacifico says, that neighborhoods evolve because pods of homogenous people naturally come together in a neighborhood. Instead, migration of various types of people \u2013 who often share broad characteristics \u2013 into an area is the building block upon which populations grow and neighborhoods form. And the neighborhoods Pacifico examined became nexuses, housing diverse people arriving through several historical processes.<\/p>\n
El Purgatorio\u2019s residents, for example, are believed to have arrived from the surrounding countryside due to climate change and to escape the imperial Chim\u00fa culture. Migration to Bronzeville, meanwhile, stemmed from people seeking industrial work due to World War I and to escape oppression in the South. Bursts of mass migration to both communities provided access to jobs and resources, so diverse neighborhoods blossomed despite racial segregation in Chicago and class-related segregation in El Purgatorio.<\/p>\n
There was the inevitable factioning, but those internal divisions also helped create the individual characters of the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking about neighborhoods as special kinds of communities,\u201d Pacifico says, \u201cbecause neighborhoods are based in places and residences. They speak to the way we really experience our lives with people who, at the very least, seem familiar to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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