The Black Chicago Renaissance /
Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, socia...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Hine, Darlene Clark, editor. McCluskey, John, editor. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012] |
| Series: | New Black studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Let's call it love / [by] J.M. Mahlum.
- Black Chicago: History, Culture, and Community. African American cultural expression in Chicago before the Renaissance: the performing, visual, and literary arts, 1893-1933 / [by] Christopher Robert Reed ; The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago flowerings / [by] Samuel A. Floyd Jr. ; The problem of race and Chicago's great Tivoli Theater / [by] Clovis E. Semmes ; The Defender brings you the world: the Grand European Tour of Patrick B. Prescott Jr. / [by] Hilary Mac Austin.
- Black Chicago's Renaissance: Culture, Consciousness, Politics, and Place. The dialectics of placelessness and boundedness in Richard Wright's and Gwendolyn Brooks's fictions: crafing the Chicago Black Renaissance's literary landscape / [by] Elizabeth Schlabach ; Richard Wright and the season of manifestoes / John McCluskey Jr. ; Horace Cayton no road home / [by] David T. Bailey ; "Who are you America but me?" : the American Negro Exposition, 1940 / [by] Jeffrey Helgeson ; Chicago's native son: Charles White and the laboring of the Black Renaissance / [by] Erik S. Gellman.
- Visual Art and Artists in the Black Chicago Renaissance. Chicago's African American visual arts renaissance / [by] Murry N. DePillars.