POLIT/AFCNA 234 Black Metropolis: From MLK to Obama
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
ISBN: 9780679444329Publication Date: 2010-09-07
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in the City by
Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers, it is a sweeping historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s. Its findings offer a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century. It offers a dizzying and dynamic world filled with captivating people and startling revelations.
ISBN: 9780226253213Publication Date: 2015-11-10
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism by
Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the ChicagoRenaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theatre, music, and intellectualism, from 1930 to 1955. AnneMeis Knupfer's The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism demonstrates the complexity of black women's many vital contributions to this unique cultural flowering. The book examines various groups of black female activists, including writers and actresses, social workers, artists, school teachers, and women's club members to document the impact of social class, gender, nativity, educational attainment, and professional affiliations on their activities.
ISBN: 0252030478Publication Date: 2006-04-05
Selling The Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 by
In Selling the Race, Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and ’50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Along the way, he offers fascinating reinterpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition, the rise of black music and the culture industry that emerged around it, the development of the Associated Negro Press and the founding of Johnson Publishing, and the outcry over the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.
By presenting African Americans as agents, rather than casualties, of modernity, Green ultimately reenvisions urban existence in a way that will resonate with anyone interested in race, culture, or the life of cities.
ISBN: 0226306410Publication Date: 2006-11-15
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
ISBN: 1400082773Publication Date: 2004-08-10
Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville by
In the Jim Crow era Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood on the city’s South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality. Michelle R. Boyd examines how black revitalization leaders reinvented the neighborhood’s history in ways that, amazingly, sanitized the brutal elements of life under Jim Crow and develops a new way to understand the political significance of race today.
ISBN: 9780816656455Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class by ISBN: 9780226021195Publication Date: 2013-07-02
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago by
A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous--and ordinary--ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, he investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive Era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, and the ways black men cope with--and resist--spacial containment.
A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, Spatializing Blackness examines how these mechanisms came to exist, why society aimed them against African Americans, and the consequences for black communities and black masculinity both historically and today.
ISBN: 9780252039645Publication Date: 2015-08-30
