Selling the race
Subtitle: culture, community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
By: Adam Green
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780226306414
Subjects: African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; African American arts -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Cultural awareness -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Community life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. In fact, Adam Green argues, this vibrant period in Windy City life engendered a unique cultural and commercial consciousness, fostering ideas of racial identity that remain influential today."

"In his study, Green tells the story of how this unified consciousness was shaped. With this portrayal of black life - complemented by a dozen works of the Chicago photographer Wayne F. Miller - Green ultimately presents African Americans as agents, rather than casualties, of modernity, reenvisioning urban existence in a way that will resonate with anyone interested in race, culture, or the life of cities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-283) and index
Table of contents: title: In search of African-American modernity : an introduction; title: Imagining the future; title: Making the music; title: The ends of clientage; title: Selling the race; title: A moment of simultaneity; title: Conclusion : an African-American dilemma