Landscapes of Hope : Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago /

In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Brian McCammack travels to Chicago's parks and beaches as well as farms and forests of the rural Midwest, where African Americans retreated to relax and reconnect with southern i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCammack, Brian, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
Human geography > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Recreation areas > Illinois > History > 20th century.
Recreation areas > Michigan > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Illinois > Chicago > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
African Americans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Human geography.
Recreation areas.
Illinois.
Illinois > Chicago.
Michigan.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Brian McCammack travels to Chicago's parks and beaches as well as farms and forests of the rural Midwest, where African Americans retreated to relax and reconnect with southern identities and lifestyles they had left behind.
Physical Description:1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:0674982606
9780674982604

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