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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Baldwin, Davarian L.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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