Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life - Baldwin, Davarian L.; ebrary, Inc. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
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?
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books