Chicago's new Negroes : modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life /
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institution...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-353) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807887608 0807887609 9781469604633 1469604639 |