The Black Chicago Renaissance / edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. ; Marshanda A. Smith, managing editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hine, Darlene Clark, editor.

McCluskey, John, editor.

Series:

New Black studies series

The new Black studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American arts--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.

African American arts.

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

Arts and society--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

History.

Intellectual life.

Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Illinois--Chicago.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 208 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

Summary:

" Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. This collection's various essays discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the Harlem Renaissance and placed the development of black culture in a national and international context. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, and the American Negro Exposition of 1940. Contributors are Hilary Mac Austin, David T. Bailey, Murry N. DePillars, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Erik S. Gellman, Jeffrey Helgeson, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Christopher Robert Reed, Elizabeth Schlabach, and Clovis E. Semmes"-- Provided by publisher.

"The "New Negro" consciousness with its roots in the generation born in the last and opening decades of the 19th and 20th centuries replenished and nurtured by migration, resulted in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s then reemerged transformed in the 1930s as the Black Chicago Renaissance. The authors in this volume argue that beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1950s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that rivaled the cultural outpouring in Harlem. The Black Chicago Renaissance, however, has not received its full due. This book addresses that neglect. Like Harlem, Chicago had become a major destination for black southern migrants. Unlike Harlem, it was also an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work that took place here. The contributors to Black Chicago Renaissance analyze a prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Each author discusses forces that distinguished and link the Black Chicago Renaissance to the Harlem Renaissance as well as placing the development of black culture in a national and international context by probing the histories of multiple (sequential and overlapping--Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis) black renaissances. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, as well as the American Negro Exposition of 1940"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252037023

0252037022

9780252078583

0252078586

OCLC:

772499394