Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York : From the Suppressed to the Strange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Jonathan Ezra.

Series:

Excelsior Editions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen twenties.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Offers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law.Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Figures

Table

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

Introduction

Hindsight, 2026

New York from Above

Hindsight, 1920

Part I. The Old Ball

Chapter 1 New Year's Eve, 1919

Chapter 2 Streets

Traffic

Dangers

Ringing in 1920

The January 2 Palmer Raids

Chapter 3 Mapping Ethnicity

Mapping "Racial Colonies"

Syrian Quarters

Little Armenia

European Confusion

The Jewish Variations

Black Jews

Scenes of Chinatown

Chinatown: Transition and Stereotypes

Intermingling

Chapter 4 Unmapped NYC: Indigenous, Carceral, Toxic

The Reservation

Beyond the Paper Borders

Other Islands, NYC

A Black Coney Island

Dangerous Amusements

Chapter 5 Chills and Raids

Flu Season

Political Chills

A Season for Raids

Part II. The New Ball

Chapter 6 Personality

Caesar's Wife

Personality: Eva Tanguay

The Culture of Personality

The Ziegfeld Girls

Chapter 7 Celebrity

The Babe

A Livelier Ball

Ruppert

Public Relations

Frazee

Heading Home

Stars

Chapter 8 Publicity and Parades

Tammany Spectacle

The Overalls Parade

Chapter 9 Black Nationalism on Display

"Negro Moses"

Spectacle: The UNIA Conference

Chapter 10 Owning Black Stories

Real Estate

Schomburg

The Balls

Part III. Making Room

Chapter 11 Making Spaces I: Hosting Queer Culture

A'Lelia Walker's Parties

Mabel Hampton

Queer-Friendly Business

Chapter 12 The Breadwinners

Women and Law Enforcement

Sex Work

Support for Young Black Women

Women Making Music

Chapter 13 Women Working with Words

Museums

Black and Brown Librarians

Pura Belpré and Bilingual Space

More Libraries

Bookstores

Anderson, Heap, Ulysses

Editing

Chapter 14 Making Spaces II: The Women's Sphere

Naomi Spencer.

Women's Schools

Birth Control and Controversies

Legacies: Suffrage, Heterodox, Women's Auxiliaries

Part IV. Drawing Lines

Chapter 15 Black Nationalism/Zionism and Anti-Zionism

Zionism and Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism

The Palestine Anti-Zionism Society

Chapter 16 Irish NYC

Irish Nationalism on Parade

Irish and Irish-ish Writers

Chapter 17 Puerto Rican NYC

Sections in Español

Boricua Political Activism

Vega

Muñoz Marín

Chapter 18 The Ku Klux Klan

Courting the KKK

KKK 2.0

The NYC KKK

The KKK at Columbia

Resisting the Klan

The KKK at the NYC Movies

Enabling White Supremacy

Chapter 19 Jim Crow

The Near-Lynching of Alphonso Mayo

Police Brutality

Lynching

Claude McKay

Charles Gilpin's Drama League Controversy

Jim Crow/James Cross

Segregation

Firsts

Segregation in Sports

Black Baseball

Buck Lai

Part V. The Whirl of New York

Chapter 20 How to Cause an Immigration Crisis

Quotas

1910 Problems

Leaving New York

Louise Bryant

Suicide

Chapter 21 Assimilation

Diversity, Inclusiveness

Melting Pots

Holidays

Hanukkah

Chapter 22 Sounds

Music of the Syrian Colonies

Music from Home

The World of Victor Records

International Music Live

Music Outdoors

Chapter 23 Black Music and Jazz

New York City Blues

Lucille Handy's Blues

Black Classical and Spirituals

Black Vaudeville, Musical Theater

The 369th and the Clef Club

Jazz

The Sheiks

Epilogue: Decadeism

Notes

Index.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0623-6

979-88-558-0622-9

OCLC:

1586549137