Chicago's New Negroes : Modernity, the Great Migration, and 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
Main Author: Baldwin, Davarian L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stadtbevölkerung
Soziale Situation
Ethnische Beziehungen
Migration
Social conditions
Race relations.
Population.
Migration, Internal.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Illinois > Chicago > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Schwarze.
Chicago, Ill.
United States.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 1875-
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Population > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 1875-
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469604633

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