Jim Crow nostalgia
Subtitle: reconstructing race in Bronzeville
By: Michelle R. Boyd.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780816646777; 9780816646784
Subjects: African Americans -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago; African Americans -- Segregation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Community life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Politics and government; African American leadership -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Nostalgia -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago; Nostalgia -- Political aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago; Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social conditions; Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) -- Politics and government; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Race, nostalgia, and neighborhood redevelopment; title: The way we were : political accommodation and neighborhood change, 1870-1950; title: When we were colored : Black civic leadership and the birth of nostalgia, 1950-1990; title: Back to the future : marketing the race for neighborhood development; title: Ties and chitlins : political legitimacy and racial authentication; title: We're all in this mess together : identity and the framing of racial agendas; title: Conclusion: Nostalgia and identity in the twenty-first century.