Migrating to the movies [[electronic resource] ] : cinema and Black urban modernity / / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart |
Autore | Stewart Jacqueline Najuma <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/652996073 |
Collana | The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures Motion picture audiences - United States African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american actors
african american directors african americans america american entertainment american history black americans black audiences black film culture black urban life black urban modernity chicago cinema and culture cinema cinematic representations early films film history illustrated influence of cinema migration modern history movie theaters nonfiction northern migration oscar micheaux race films silent movie era urban populations urban setting |
ISBN |
1-59734-750-7
1-282-76265-6 9786612762659 0-520-93640-X 1-4175-8514-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Nigger in the Woodpile, or Black (In)Visibility in Film History -- 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem -- 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema -- 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity -- 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago -- 5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters -- 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking -- 7. "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783317603321 |
Stewart Jacqueline Najuma <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart |
Autore | Stewart Jacqueline Najuma <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/652996073 |
Collana | The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures Motion picture audiences - United States African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american actors
african american directors african americans america american entertainment american history black americans black audiences black film culture black urban life black urban modernity chicago cinema and culture cinema cinematic representations early films film history illustrated influence of cinema migration modern history movie theaters nonfiction northern migration oscar micheaux race films silent movie era urban populations urban setting |
ISBN |
1-59734-750-7
1-282-76265-6 9786612762659 0-520-93640-X 1-4175-8514-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Nigger in the Woodpile, or Black (In)Visibility in Film History -- 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem -- 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema -- 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity -- 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago -- 5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters -- 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking -- 7. "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248195603316 |
Stewart Jacqueline Najuma <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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Palestinian Chicago : Identity in Exile / / Loren D. Lybarger |
Autore | Lybarger Loren D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, : University of California Press, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/74077311 |
Collana | New Directions in Palestinian Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Palestinian Americans - Social conditions
Palestinian Arabs - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century Palestinian Arabs - Illinois - Chicago - History - 21st century HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
academic american cities american history american immigrants chicago classism fieldwork gender roles generational government immigrant communities immigrant population immigrant story interviews islam islamic nationalism nationalist palestine palestinian immigrant political politics religion religious persecution religious studies scholarly secular social class us history |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword by the Series Editor -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Palestinian Chicago: Spatial Location, Historical Formation -- 2. Secularism in Exile -- 3. The Religious Turn: American Muslims for Palestine -- 4. The Religious Turn: Generational Subjectivities -- 5. Dynamic Syntheses: Reversion, Conversion, and Accommodation -- 6. Dynamic Syntheses: Rebellion, Absolute and Spiritual -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996359642903316 |
Lybarger Loren D.
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Oakland, : University of California Press, 2020 | ||
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Performing Piety : Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe / / Elaine A. Pena |
Autore | Pena Elaine A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
Disciplina | 232.91 7097253 |
Soggetto topico |
Guadalupe, Our Lady of - Cult - Mexico
Anthropology of religion - Mexico Sacred space |
Soggetto non controllato |
bible
catholic church catholicism chicago chicano christianity cultural anthropology des plaines devotional labor doctrine faith festivals gender hispanic american hispanic immigration latino latinx mexican nationals mexico city nonfiction performance piety pilgrimage popular religion prayers religion religious performance religious tradition religious sacred spaces saints shrine sidewalk shrine spirituality tepeyac theology urban planning virgin of guadalupe worship |
ISBN |
1-283-27791-3
9786613277916 0-520-94880-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Locating Transnational Devotion -- Part One. Building -- Part Two. Walking -- Part Three. Conquering -- Conclusion: Making Space Sacred -- Appendix: Pilgrimage Repertoire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790054803321 |
Pena Elaine A.
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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Prohibition gangsters [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of a bad generation / / Marc Mappen |
Autore | Mappen Marc |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.106/6097309042 |
Soggetto topico |
Prohibition - United States - History
Organized crime - United States - History Mafia - United States - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th amendment
1920s chicago gangs gangster mob mobsters new york prohibition |
ISBN | 0-8135-6116-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The big fellow in the Windy City -- Big battles in the big apple -- Smaller cities -- Gangsters in the surf -- Guys & Dolls and a gangster moll -- Capone's long trip home & Lucky's island adventure -- The twilight of the gangster? -- Pay your taxes -- Lucky v. Dewey -- Shot to death -- Lepke on the hot seat -- For them, crime did pay. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788303603321 |
Mappen Marc
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2013 | ||
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Women of faith : the Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the evolution of a religious community / / Mary Beth Fraser Connolly |
Autore | Connolly Mary Beth Fraser |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.82 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Social History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Sister Formation Movement
Vatican II catholic women chicago midwestern nineteenth and twentieth century Catholic history nuns sisters of mercy sisters women religious |
ISBN |
0-8232-5474-7
0-8232-5475-5 0-8232-6160-3 0-8232-5476-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part I. "Charity embraces those who abound" : the spirit of mercy comes to America, 1846-1929 -- part II. "This mutual love and union." From amalgamation to a post-Vatican II world : 1929-1980s -- part III. New life, new paths, same spirit : carrying mercy into the twenty-first century, 1980s-2008. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789199603321 |
Connolly Mary Beth Fraser
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Women of faith : the Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the evolution of a religious community / / Mary Beth Fraser Connolly |
Autore | Connolly Mary Beth Fraser |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.82 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Social History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Sister Formation Movement
Vatican II catholic women chicago midwestern nineteenth and twentieth century Catholic history nuns sisters of mercy sisters women religious |
ISBN |
0-8232-5474-7
0-8232-5475-5 0-8232-6160-3 0-8232-5476-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part I. "Charity embraces those who abound" : the spirit of mercy comes to America, 1846-1929 -- part II. "This mutual love and union." From amalgamation to a post-Vatican II world : 1929-1980s -- part III. New life, new paths, same spirit : carrying mercy into the twenty-first century, 1980s-2008. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823775903321 |
Connolly Mary Beth Fraser
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Working-class heroes [[electronic resource] ] : protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood / / Maria Kefalas |
Autore | Kefalas Maria J. <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina | 306/.09773/11 |
Soggetto topico |
Working class - Illinois - Chicago
Sociology, Urban - Illinois - Chicago Social values - Illinois - Chicago |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american history anthropologists anthropology beltway chicago school chicago community cultural geography cultural historians cultural perspective demographic studies ethnographers firefighters home local history neighborhood office workers police officers regional history sociologists sociology southwest side chicago stay at home mothers urban studies white working class working class community working class |
ISBN |
1-59875-015-1
0-520-93665-5 1-282-76277-X 9786612762772 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. In Search of Working-Class Chicago -- ONE. Rethinking Race in the Ethnic White Enclave -- TWO. A Precious Corner of the World -- THREE. Home, Sweet Home -- FOUR. For Country and Home -- CONCLUSION. The Last Garden -- Appendix: In the Field -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783178403321 |
Kefalas Maria J. <1967->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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