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Subject(s)

• African American arts—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago—Intellectual life—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago—Intellectual life—19th century [Browse]
• Arts and society—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century [Browse]
• African American authors—Illinois—Chicago [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Civilization—20th century [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Intellectual life—20th century [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Civilization—19th century [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Intellectual life—19th century [Browse]

Editor

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

Series

• New Black studies series. [More in this series]
• Illinois scholarship online. [More in this series]
• The new Black studies series

Summary note

This anthology engages questions about origins of the Black Chicago Renaissance (1930-1955) from wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives. It traces a foundational stage from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to onset of the Depression. Eleven essays contribute to recovering understudied black artists and intellectuals, remapping African American cultural geography beyond and before 1920s Harlem, and reconceptualizing the paradigm of urban black renaissance.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2020).

Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Rise of Black Chicago's Culturati: Intellectuals, Authors, Artists, and Patrons, 1893-1930
• 2. Journey to Frederick Douglass's Chicago Jubilee: Colored American Day, August 25, 1893
• 3. Fannie Barrier Williams, the New Negro, and Black Feminist Pragmatism, 1893-1926
• 4. James David Corrothers and Henry Demarest Lloyd: Black Poet and White Patron in 1890s Chicago
• 5. Fenton Johnson, Literary Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Class and Family
• 6. Strategies for Visualizing Cultural Capital: The Black Portrait
• 7. The Black Creole Vision of Archibald J. Motley Jr.: Hybrid Identity and New Negro Consciousness
• 8. Black Chicago Pioneers in the Training of Dancers
• 9. Becoming Barthé: The Chicago Years, 1924-1930
• 10. King Daniel Ganaway: Master Pictorialist Photographer
• 11. Chicago's Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance
• Literary Selections
• "Auditions"
• From "Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob"
• "Entering Chicago"
• Contributors
• Index.

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ISBN

0-252-05191-2

OCLC

1154572381

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