Title: Selling the race
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: History, African Americans, Social life and customs, Intellectual life, Race relations, Race identity, African American arts, Community life, City and town life, Cultural awareness, African americans, illinois, chicago, Chicago (ill.), social conditions
Places: Illinois, Chicago, Chicago (Ill.)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F548.9.N4 G72 2007