Selling the Race - Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955

Informationen zum Autor Adam Green is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. Klappentext In Selling the Race , Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Along the way, he offers fascinating reinterpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition, the rise of black music and the culture industry that emerged around it, the development of the Associated Negro Press and the founding of Johnson Publishing, and the outcry over the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. By presenting African Americans as agents, rather than casualties, of modernity, Green ultimately reenvisions urban existence in a way that will resonate with anyone interested in race, culture, or the life of cities. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s! a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. This book offers interpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Green, Adam/ Miller Green, Green Adam
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9780226306414
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30641-4
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Illinois, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Black & Asian Studies, C 1945 To C 1960, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General