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Chicago's new Negroes

by Baldwin, Davarian L.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xiv, 363 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): 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. | Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875- | Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. | Chicago (Ill.) -- Population -- History -- 20th century. | Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.

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?

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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