The Black Chicago Renaissance
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012].
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9780252037023, 0252037022, 9780252078583, 0252078586
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Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780252037023, 0252037022, 9780252078583, 0252078586
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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.
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The "New Negro" consciousness with its roots in the generation born in the last and opening decades of the 19th and 20th centuries replenished and nurtured by migration, resulted in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s then reemerged transformed in the 1930s as the Black Chicago Renaissance. The authors in this volume argue that beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1950s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that rivaled the cultural outpouring in Harlem. The Black Chicago Renaissance, however, has not received its full due. This book addresses that neglect. Like Harlem, Chicago had become a major destination for black southern migrants. Unlike Harlem, it was also an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work that took place here. The contributors to Black Chicago Renaissance analyze a prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Each author discusses forces that distinguished and link the Black Chicago Renaissance to the Harlem Renaissance as well as placing the development of black culture in a national and international context by probing the histories of multiple (sequential and overlapping, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis) black renaissances.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hine, D. C., & McCluskey, J. (2012). The Black Chicago Renaissance . University of Illinois Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hine, Darlene Clark and John, McCluskey. 2012. The Black Chicago Renaissance. University of Illinois Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hine, Darlene Clark and John, McCluskey. The Black Chicago Renaissance University of Illinois Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hine, Darlene Clark, and John McCluskey. The Black Chicago Renaissance University of Illinois Press, 2012.
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