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Black metropolis; a study of Negro life in a northern city / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton. Introd. by Richard Wright. Introd. to Torchbook ed. by Everett C. Hughes.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drake, St. Clair.
- Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970, author.
- Series:
- Harper torchbooks. Academy library
- Harper torchbooks, TB1086-1087. The Academy library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Economic conditions.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Economic history.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- regular print
- Edition:
- [Revised and enlarged edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1962]
- Contents:
- VOLUME 1 : Author's Acknowledgment
- Introduction by Richard Wright
- Introduction to the Torchbook Edition by Everett C. Hughes
- Introduction: Midwest Metropolis
- Part 1: 1. Flight to Freedom
- 2. Land of Promise
- 3. The Great Migration
- 4. Race Riot and Aftermath
- 5. Between Two Wars
- Part 2: 6. Along the Color-Line
- 7. Crossing the Color-Line
- 8. The Black Ghetto
- 9. The Job Ceiling
- 10. The Shifting Line of Color
- 11. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Breaking the Job Ceiling
- 12. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Black Workers and the New Unions
- 13. Democracy and Political Expendiency
- Appendix: Black Metropolis 1961.
- VOLUME 2 : Authors' Preface
- Part 3: 14. Bronzeville
- 15. The Power of Press and Pulpit
- 16. Negro Business: Myth and Fact
- 17. Business Under a Cloud
- 18. The Measure of the Man
- 19. Style of Living- Upper Class
- 20. Lower Class: Sex and Family
- 21. The World of the Lower Class
- 22. The Middle-class Way of Life
- 23. Advancing the Race
- Part 4: 24. Of Things to Come
- Bronzeville 1961
- A Methodological Note by W. Lloyd Warner
- Notes and Documentation
- A List of Selected Books Dealing with the American Negro
- Suggestions for Collateral Reading, 1962
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1946
- Other Format:
- Online version: Drake, St. Clair. Black metropolis.
- OCLC:
- 768190
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