The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
 "This collection reveals that 1930s-50s Chicago had enough African American artists who were born, worked, or studied there—in the applied, performing, and recording arts, social sciences, and literature—to constitute a critical mass rivaling the earlier cultural exuberance of Harlem."--Choice"The book offers highly readable essays from scholars who tell stories about the artists -- including some Harlem Renaissance ex-parts who came to Chicago -- and the conditions that contributed to a major arts movement in the city that lasted for more than two decades."--Chicago Tribune"A lively, useful anthology of ten critical essays on Chicago's remarkable upturn in black cultural politics and political culture at midcentury."--Journal of Illinois History "This landmark anthology, the first to comprehensively   gather work on the Black Chicago Renaissance, ratifies that topic's   ascendant stature within recent African American and American historical   study. A tremendous achievement for its editors and contributors, and   an indispensable scholarly resource for generations to come."--Adam   Green, author ofSelling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955