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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago—History—19th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago [Browse]
• African American authors [Browse]
• African American artists [Browse]
• African American intellectuals [Browse]

Editor

• Courage, Richard A., 1946- [Browse]
• Reed, Christopher Robert [Browse]

Writer of foreword

Hine, Darlene Clark [Browse]

Series

New Black studies series [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life. Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Rise of Black Chicago's Culturati: Intellectuals, Authors, Artists, and Patrons, 1893-1930 / Christopher Robert Reed
• Journey to Frederick Douglass's Chicago Jubilee: Colored American Day, August 25, 1893 / John McCluskey Jr.
• Fannie Barrier Williams, the New Negro, and Black Feminist Pragmatism, 1893-1926 / Mary Jo Deegan
• James David Corrothers and Henry Demarest Lloyd: Black Poet and White Patron in 1890s Chicago / Richard Yarborough
• Fenton Johnson, Literary Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Class and Family / Richard A. Courage and James C. Hall
• Strategies for Visualizing Cultural Capital: the Black Portrait / Amy M. Mooney
• The Black Creole Vision of Archibald J. Motley Jr.: Hybrid Identity and New Negro Consciousness / Bonnie Claudia Harrison
• Black Chicago Pioneers in the Training of Dancers / Clovis E. Semmes
• Becoming Barthé: The Chicago Years, 1924-1930 / Margaret Rose Vendryes
• King Daniel Ganaway: Master Pictorialist Photographer / Brenda Ellis Fredericks
• Chicago's Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance / Richard A. Courage
• Literary selections. "Auditions" / John McCluskey Jr.
• From "Illinois : Mecca of the Migrant Mob" / Charles S. Johnson
• "Entering Chicago" / J. M [Frank Marshall?] Davis.

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ISBN

• 0252084926 ((pbk.))
• 9780252084928 ((pbk.))
• 9780252043055 (hardcover)
• 0252043057 (hardcover)

OCLC

1160059820

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