Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807857998 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Good scholarship, well written on a topic of huge importance Stuart K Patterson Excellent study!. Delivers a punch! From its opening pages, Chicago's New Negroes delivers a knockout punch. Baldwin opens his monograph with a retelling of Jack Johnson's 1910 heavyweight victory and its impact on Black Chicago, and thus only begins to weave an epic and compelling tapestry that demonstrates how Black people "acted" rather than were "acted upon." He resituates ideas once l
It is a fine addition to not only urban history, but also racial and economic historiography.--CHOICEAn ideal text for undergraduates and for scholars in American Studies. A pioneering work.--Journal of American Ethnic HistoryAn important book on the New Negro. A risk-taking, important, and creative work that deserves to find a wide readership among students of popular and consumer culture, and U.S., working-class, and African American history.--The Journal of African American HistoryA welcome addition to a growing body of work exploring the New Negro Movement outside of Harlem during the 1920s. Centralizes mass consumers' ideas of modernity alongside key producers and entrepreneurs. A must-read in African American and cultural studies.--The Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyRich
J. 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. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life.. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship.Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms