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The Black Chicago Renaissance

Hine, Darlene Clark, editor of compilation, McCluskey, John, editor of compilation

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: African American arts Illinois Chicago 20th century. / African Americans Illinois Chicago Intellectual life 20th century. / Arts and society Illinois Chicago History 20th century. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. / HISTORY / Social History. / Chicago (Ill.) Intellectual life 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780252037023, 0252037022, 9780252078583, 0252078586

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NX512.3.A35 B595 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE