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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baldwin, Davarian L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Since 1875
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Illinois > Chicago > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans
African Americans > Migrations
African Americans > Social conditions
Migration, Internal
Population
Race relations
Social conditions
Migration
Ethnische Beziehungen
Soziale Situation
Stadtbevölkerung
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 1875-
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Population > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 1875-
Illinois > Chicago
United States
Chicago, Ill.
Schwärze
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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