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
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Kinship with the soil
  • Part I. The migration years, 1915-1929. "Booker T." Washington Park and Chicago's racial landscapes ; Black Chicagoans in unexpected places
  • Part II. The Depression years, 1930-1940. Playgrounds and protest grounds ; Back to nature in hard times ; Building men and building trees
  • Epilogue: A century of migration to "That great iron city."

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