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Author:

Green, Adam, 1963-

Title:

Selling the race : culture, community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 / Adam Green.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans--Race identity--Chicago.--Chicago.
African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Social life and customs--20th century.
African American arts--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Cultural awareness--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
City and town life--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Community life--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-283) and index.

Contents:

In search of African-American modernity : an introduction -- Imagining the future -- Making the music -- The ends of clientage -- Selling the race -- A moment of simultaneity -- Conclusion : an African-American dilemma.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

ISBN:

9780226306414
9780226306414 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226306410 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70291957

LCCN:

2006021626

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)