Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

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

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Baldwin, Davarian L.

Title Chicago's new Negroes [electronic resource] : modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / Davarian L. Baldwin.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 363 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.
Contents 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?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807830992 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807830994 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807857998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807857991 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only