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 institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenui…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5799-1
- EAN: 9780807857991
- Produktnummer: 2652619
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 617 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 617
Über den Autor
DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN is associate professor of history and African and African Diaspora studies at Boston College.
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