Interzones
Subtitle: Black/White sex districts in Chicago and New York in the early twentieth century
By: Kevin J. Mumford.
Series: Popular cultures, everyday lives
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Miscegenation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Miscegenation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Prostitution -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Sex customs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Sex customs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations; Chicago (Ill.) -- Moral conditions; New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations; New York (N.Y.) -- Moral conditions
Other titles: Black/White sex districts in Chicago and New York in the early twentieth century
Description: At the height of the Great Migration and the Progressive era, interracial sex districts began to appear in the urban American landscape. Interzones weaves the growth of cities and the development of commercialized leisure into an account of how the sexual color line was drawn - and how it was crossed. From black female prostitution to homosexual couples, from taxi dance halls to speakeasies, Kevin J.

Mumford reconstructs the mixed-race underworld to reveal how these subcultures transformed not only race relations, but American culture as well.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.