Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Record 11 of 14
Previous Record Next Record
Print Material
Author Heap, Chad C., 1967-

Title Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 / Chad Heap.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.8009773 H351s 2009    ---  Available
Description xii, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-389) and index.
Contents The spatial dynamics of slumming and the emergence of commercial leisure -- Into the slums: the spatial organization, cultural geography, and regulation of a new urban pastime -- Beyond the slums: commercial leisure and the reorganization and policing of urban space -- The changing conceptualization of sexuality and race in the slumming vogues of Chicago and New York -- Adventures in the slums and red-light districts -- The search for Bohemian thrillage -- The Negro vogue: excursions into a "mysterious dark world" -- The pay and lesbian craze in white and black.
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.
Slums -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Slums -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.
Sex customs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Sex customs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
ISBN 0226322432 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226322438 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000041422152
BWX R0778765
CDX 5865274

 
    
Available items only