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.

Smith, Marshanda A., editor.

Series:

New Black studies series.

New Black Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African American arts.

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

Arts and society.

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

African Americans.

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

Chicago (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Chicaggo, Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2012.

Summary:

"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 1920's then reemerged transformed in the 1930's as the Black Chicago Renaissance. The authors in this volume argue that beginning in the 1930's and lasting into the 1950's, 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.

" Beginning in the 1930's, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950's and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's. 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.

Contents:

Half title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Let's Call It Love

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Black Chicago: History, Culture, and Community

Chapter 1. African American Cultural Expression in Chicago before the Renaissance: The Performing, Visual, and Literary Arts, 1893-1933

Chapter 2. The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings

Chapter 3. The Problem of Race and Chicago's Great Tivoli Theater

Chapter 4. The Defender Brings You the World: The Grand European Tour of Patrick B. Prescott Jr.

Part II. Black Chicago's Renaissance: Culture, Consciousness, Politics, and Place

Chapter 5. The Dialectics of Placelessness and Boundedness in Richard Wright's and Gwendolyn Brooks's Fictions: Crafting the Chicago Black Renaissance's Literary Landscape

Chapter 6. Richard Wright and the Season of Manifestoes

Chapter 7. Horace Cayton: No Road Home

Chapter 8. "Who Are You America but Me?" The American Negro Exposition, 1940

Chapter 9. Chicago's Native Son: Charles White and the Laboring of the Black Renaissance

Part III. Visual Art and Artists in the Black Chicago Renaissance

Chapter 10. Chicago's African American Visual Arts Renaissance

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-09439-5

OCLC:

1016605543