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Author:

Baldwin, Davarian L.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xiv, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--1875-
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--History--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.

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?

ISBN:

9780807857991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807857998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807830994 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807830992 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006027378

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)