Chicago's New Negroes
Chicago's New Negroes

Author: Davarian L. Baldwin

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-11-30

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0807887609

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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, 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 a "marketplace intellectual life." Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. 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.

Chicago's New Negroes
Chicago's New Negroes

Author: Davarian L. Baldwin

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0807830992

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Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

The Negro in Chicago; A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot
The Negro in Chicago; A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot

Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 9780342694099

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Landscapes of Hope
Landscapes of Hope

Author: Brian McCammack

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0674976371

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In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Brian McCammack travels to Chicago's parks and beaches as well as farms and forests of the rural Midwest, where African Americans retreated to relax and reconnect with southern identities and lifestyles they had left behind.

A Political Education
A Political Education

Author: Elizabeth Todd-Breland

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1469646595

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In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities to demand increased school resources. On the other side, the mayor, backed by the Obama administration, argued that only corporate-style education reform could set the struggling school system aright. The stark differences in positions resonated nationally, challenging the long-standing alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. Elizabeth Todd-Breland recovers the hidden history underlying this battle. She tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models that pre-dated charter schools, and black teachers' challenges to a newly assertive teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the burgeoning neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century, laying bare ruptures and enduring tensions between the politics of black achievement, urban inequality, and U.S. democracy.

Black Public History in Chicago
Black Public History in Chicago

Author: Ian Rocksborough-Smith

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2018-04-11

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0252050339

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In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Ian Rocksborough-Smith’s meticulous research and adept storytelling provide the first in-depth look at how these committed individuals leveraged Chicago’s black public history. Their goal: to engage with the struggle for racial equality. Rocksborough-Smith shows teachers working to advance curriculum reform in public schools, while well-known activists Margaret and Charles Burroughs pushed for greater recognition of black history by founding the DuSable Museum of African American History. Organizations like the Afro-American Heritage Association, meanwhile, used black public history work to connect radical politics and nationalism. Together, these people and their projects advanced important ideas about race, citizenship, education, and intellectual labor that paralleled the shifting terrain of mid-twentieth-century civil rights.

The Black Chicago Renaissance
The Black Chicago Renaissance

Author: Darlene Clark Hine

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-06-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0252094395

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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, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. This collection's various essays discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the Harlem Renaissance and placed the development of black culture in a national and international context. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, and the American Negro Exposition of 1940. Contributors are Hilary Mac Austin, David T. Bailey, Murry N. DePillars, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Erik S. Gellman, Jeffrey Helgeson, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Christopher Robert Reed, Elizabeth Schlabach, and Clovis E. Semmes.

The Negro in Chicago
The Negro in Chicago

Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9781071454176

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The violence in Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 began in late July, when whites killed a black teen off a South Side beach. By early August, over three dozen had been killed and over five hundred injured, during some of the most frightening few weeks in Chicago and U. S. history. That summer, race riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the country, with hundreds of deaths, arson, looting, and murder. In the Chicago riot's aftermath, the governor of Illinois appointed a non-partisan, interracial investigative committee, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, to identify the causes of the violence and find solutions. The Commission's report was originally published in 1922. It included a substantial overview of the riots, the conditions leading up to the violence, and the consequences in various neighborhoods. The report was groundbreaking for its time, both for the cooperation of black and white civic leaders in its creation and for its candid conclusion: that there were no easy or immediate solutions to ease tensions between black and white residents, and that only "through mutual understanding and sympathy between the races" would harmony be achieved. This is the full facsimile text of the report of the Commission--still the best and most detailed overview of one of the worst periods in Chicago history, a full century ago yet mirroring many of the exact same conditions and structures we face today.