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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, Davarian L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.

Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970.

Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.

Migration, Internal.

Chicago (Ill.)--History--1875-.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.)--Population--History--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

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?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-196-3

979-88-908795-6-1

1-4696-0463-9

0-8078-8760-9

OCLC:

793525291