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Chicago's New Negroes
Davarian L. Baldwin
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Description for Chicago's New Negroes
Paperback. 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. This work argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 27 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJC; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807857991
SKU
V9780807857991
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About Davarian L. Baldwin
DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN is associate professor of history and African and African Diaspora studies at Boston College.
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