Andrew Diamond

Diamond, Andrew J. and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds., Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America (New York: New York University Press, 2020)

Diamond, Andrew J., Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)

Chauvin, S. 2014. Chicago et l'exception urbaine américaine. A propos des Andrew Diamond, Pap Ndiaye, Histoire de Chicago, Fayard in La vie des idées

Diamond, Andrew and Pap Ndiaye, Histoire de Chicago (Paris: Fayard, 2013)

Wieviorka, O. 2013. Critique: Chicaghetto. Libération

Duis, P.R. 2012. Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969.

Pacyga, D. 2011. 'Review of Diamond, Andrew J., Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969.' H-Urban, H-Net Reviews.

Hinderer, M. 2010. Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969. By Andrew J. Diamond.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 396 pp.  ISBN 978-0520-25747-4).

Wesley, J.M. 2010. "Andrew J. Diamond, Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969," The Journal of African American History 95(3-4), pp. 451–453.

Young Jr, A.A., 2010. Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969.

Diamond began his academic career in France in 2002 as a lecturer in American civilization at the Université de Picardie – Jules Verne and then moved on to the Université de Lille 3 in 2005, where he worked as an Assistant Professor until 2010. Between 2010 and 2012, Diamond was a full research fellow at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po - Paris, where he also taught a number of classes between 2007 and 2012. In 2012, he obtained his current position at the Sorbonne.

Andrew Jay Diamond (born 1 November 1967) is an American academic and professor of United States history at Sorbonne University, where he directs the research center Histoire et dynamique des espaces anglophones.

Diamond was born in Boston in 1967 and raised in Needham, Massachusetts. He attended Tufts University (1986-1990), where he majored in History and English. He obtained his PhD in History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2004 with a doctoral dissertation entitled "Hoodlums, Rebels, and Vice lords: Street Gangs, Youth Subcultures, and Race in Chicago, 1919-1968." His doctoral research earned him a fellowship from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

He is the author or co-author of a number of articles and books on the history of politics, race and political culture. His first monograph, Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969, provides a comprehensive history of Chicago's youth subcultures and street gangs and their connection to racial identity formation and grassroots racial politics. The book was reviewed favorably in numerous scholarly journals and by the Chicago press. Historian Perry Duis praised it as "an enormously important book for historians in several fields," and the Chicago Reader called it "a fascinating and revealing narrative." His most recent monograph, Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City explores the "link between race and neoliberalization at Chicago's grassroots over the 20th century". The book was awarded the Jon Gjerde Prize for the best book in Midwestern history in 2017 and the Illinois State Historical Society's Award of Superior Achievement, and was featured in the New York Times. Chicago on the Make has been lauded by a number of commentators for its hard-hitting analysis of the Chicago success story and the politicians who have rallied around it. Longtime Chicago anti-racist punk band Race Traitor referred to it as a "full take down of the neoliberal politics of Chicago," and the Chicago Review asserted that "no one seems to come out unscathed from Diamond’ s historical overview, and finishing the book, regardless of political orientation or preference, leaves one with the feeling of having just unfurled a scroll coated in an uncomfortable film of grease."

Diamond, Andrew, J., Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009)