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

• Autore: Baldwin Davarian L
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/0730773109045
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Chicago (Ill.) History 1875-; Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) Population History 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Chicago's new Negroes
• ISBN: 1-4696-0463-9; 0-8078-8760-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810341203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II