The Black Chicago Renaissance.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- New Black Studies Series .
- New Black Studies Series .
Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Let's Call It Love -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Black Chicago: History, Culture, and Community -- Chapter 1. African American Cultural Expression in Chicago before the Renaissance: The Performing, Visual, and Literary Arts, 1893-1933 -- Chapter 2. The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings -- Chapter 3. The Problem of Race and Chicago's Great Tivoli Theater -- Chapter 4. The Defender Brings You the World: The Grand European Tour of Patrick B. Prescott Jr. -- Part II. Black Chicago's Renaissance: Culture, Consciousness, Politics, and Place -- Chapter 5. The Dialectics of Placelessness and Boundedness in Richard Wright's and Gwendolyn Brooks's Fictions: Crafting the Chicago Black Renaissance's Literary Landscape -- Chapter 6. Richard Wright and the Season of Manifestoes -- Chapter 7. Horace Cayton: No Road Home -- Chapter 8. "Who Are You America but Me?" The American Negro Exposition, 1940 -- Chapter 9. Chicago's Native Son: Charles White and the Laboring of the Black Renaissance -- Part III. Visual Art and Artists in the Black Chicago Renaissance -- Chapter 10. Chicago's African American Visual Arts Renaissance -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.