Chicago's new Negroes

Baldwin, Davarian L.

Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / [electronic resource] : Davarian L. Baldwin. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xiv, 363 p. : ill., maps.

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?


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African Americans--History--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.
Migration, Internal--History--United States--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.


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