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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456369403321

Autore

Baldwin Davarian L

Titolo

Chicago's new Negroes [[electronic resource] ] : modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / / Davarian L. Baldwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0463-9

0-8078-8760-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/0730773109045

Soggetti

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century

African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century

Migration, Internal - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Chicago (Ill.) History 1875-

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Population History 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. "Chicago has no intelligentsia?": consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. The crisis of the Black bourgeoisie, or, What If Harold Cruse had lived in Chicago?

Sommario/riassunto

Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life