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Author Baldwin, Davarian L

Title Chicago's new Negroes : modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / Davarian L. Baldwin
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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?
Summary As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-353) and index
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Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans
African Americans -- Migrations
African Americans -- Social conditions
Migration, Internal
Population
Race relations
Social conditions
Migration
Ethnische Beziehungen
Soziale Situation
Stadtbevölkerung
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023238
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Chicago (Ill.) -- Population -- History -- 20th century
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
United States
Chicago, Ill.
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Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807887608
0807887609
9781469604633
1469604639