Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-235) and index.
Contents
Chicago and the politics of reputation : Richard Wright's long black shadow -- Turning white space into Black space : the Chicago Defender and the creation of the cultural front -- Artists in uniform : the South Side Community Art Center and the defense of culture -- Worker-writers in Bronzeville : Negro story and the African-American "Little" magazine -- Genre politics/cultural politics : the short story and the new Black fiction market -- Engendering the cultural front : Gwendolyn Brooks, Black women, and class struggle in poetry -- American daughters, fifth columns, and lonely crusades : purge, emigration, and exile in Chicago -- Postscript : Bronzeville today.
