1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459585803321

Autore

Allswang John M.

Titolo

A house for all peoples : ethnic politics in Chicago 1890-1936 / / John M. Allswang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1971

©1971

ISBN

0-8131-6194-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

320.977311

Soggetti

Minorities - Illinois - Chicago - History

Electronic books.

Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART ONE: ETHNIC POLITICS; I. Ethnic Groups & Their Politics; II. Chicago's Ethnics & Their Politics to 1917; III. Ethnic Voting Behavior, 1918- 1936; IV. Some Measures of Ethnic Voting Behavior; V. Ethnic Group Party Identification; VI. Political Party Self-Conceptions; PART TWO: THE FORCES OF COALITION; VII. Political Issues; VIII. Political Organization; IX. Crime & Reform; X. Socioeconomic Class; XI. Conclusion.' A House for all Peoples; Appendix; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

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Sommario/riassunto

This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to national predominance between 1928 and 1932. It builds quantitative and qualitative models for the study of ethnic groups in terms of political behavior. Focusing clearly upon political change and the role of ethnicity, the work advances the hypothesis that Chicago's ethnic groups responded as ethnic groups, rather than on socio-economic or other bases, when they shifted their party allegiances in the late twenties. This ethnic realignment was a major factor in the redistribution of



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789560103321

Autore

Kahn Jonathon Samuel

Titolo

Divine discontent [[electronic resource] ] : the religious imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois / / Jonathon S. Kahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-988575-3

1-283-12934-5

9786613129345

0-19-973660-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

303.484092

Soggetti

Naturalism - Society - Religious aspects

Pragmatism

Natural theology

African Americans - Religion

Race relations - Religious aspects - Christianity

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Divine Discontent as Religious Faith 1: What is Pragmatic Religious Naturalism and What Does It Have to Do with Du Bois? 2: Pragmatic Religious Naturalism and the Binding of The Souls of Black Folk 3: ''Love For These People'': Racial Piety as Religious Devotion 4: Rewriting the American Jeremiad: On Pluralism, Black Nationalism, and a New America 5: ''Behold the Sign of Salvation-A Noosed Rope'': The Promise and Perils of Du Bois's Economies of Sacrifice Conclusion: Beyond Du Bois: Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathon Kahn offers a fresh and controversial reading of W.E.B. Du



Bois, showing how Du Bois consciously marshals religious rhetoric, concepts, typologies, narratives, virtues, and moods in order to challenge the traditional Christian worldview.