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?
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--1875- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century. Chicago (Ill.)--Population--History--20th century. Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.