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"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community] . . . . An important reexamination of African American history."
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The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here!" examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead, they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America's World's Fair snub.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Around the Nation
1.Expectations
2.Participation and Protest
3.Race, Class, Gender
Part Two: In Host City Chicago
4.The Domain of Work
5.The Social Order
Part Three: At the Fair
6."They Met at the Fair": Linkages
7.The Scope of Involvement
Part Four: "All the World is Here!"
8.Continental Africa at the Fair: Dahomey Village
9.On the Fairgrounds: The Haytian Pavilion
10.Diasporan and Continental Africa Meet: The Congress on Africa
Appendix I: Frederick Douglass's Speech at Colored American Day
Appendix II: Colored People's Blue Book
Appendix III: Commentaries from Midway Types
Appendix IV: "Judge," a poem by A. T. Worden
Notes
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Christopher Robert Reed
Zusammenfassung
A look at African and African American participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
