J A EnglishWhen Chicago's largest neighborhood, Austin-once a municipality in its own right-resegregated from 100% Caucasian to 90+% African-American in the years 1970-71, as 120,000 Austinites fled overnight, Joe English was one of a handful of residents who cst down their buckets with their new neighbors. As a minority in a majority minority neighborhood, English has, after forty-nine years, gained a unique perspective on the state of urban America. He maintains a residence in Austin but now spends much of his time in the Caribbean. He has two children, now in their fifties, who were raised in Austin. English has a B.A. cum laude from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and an M.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. His writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader, and Co-Existence, the literary journal which featured the works of Henry Miller. The author welcomes comments at schugara@gmail.com Read More Read Less