Roots of the Black Chicago renaissance : new negro writers, artists, and intellectuals, 1893-1930 / edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed ; foreword by Darlene Clark Hine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Courage, Richard A., 1946- editor.

Reed, Christopher Robert, editor.

Hine, Darlene Clark, writer of foreword.

Series:

New Black studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

African Americans.

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

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago.

African American authors.

African American artists.

African American intellectuals.

African American arts.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Arts and society.

History.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life. Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Rise of Black Chicago's Culturati: Intellectuals, Authors, Artists, and Patrons, 1893-1930

Journey to Frederick Douglass's Chicago Jubilee: Colored American Day, August 25, 1893

Fannie Barrier Williams, the New Negro, and Black Feminist Pragmatism, 1893-1926

James David Corrothers and Henry Demarest Lloyd: Black Poet and White Patron in 1890s Chicago

Fenton Johnson, Literary Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Class and Family

Strategies for Visualizing Cultural Capital: the Black Portrait

The Black Creole Vision of Archibald J. Motley Jr.: Hybrid Identity and New Negro Consciousness

Black Chicago Pioneers in the Training of Dancers

Becoming Barthé: The Chicago Years, 1924-1930

King Daniel Ganaway: Master Pictorialist Photographer

Chicago's Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252084926

9780252084928

9780252043055

0252043057

OCLC:

1160059820