Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Book

Selling the Race : Hardback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226306414 : 0226306410 : 15 Nov 2006 : Tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. This book offers interpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition.Read More

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    In Selling the Race, Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and ’50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Along the way, he offers fascinating reinterpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition, the rise of black music and the culture industry that emerged around it, the development of the Associated Negro Press and the founding of Johnson Publishing, and the outcry over the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.

    By presenting African Americans as agents, rather than casualties, of modernity, Green ultimately reenvisions urban existence in a way that will resonate with anyone interested in race, culture, or the life of cities.

  • 0226306410
  • 9780226306414
  • A Green
  • 14 November 2006
  • Chicago University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 322
  • illustrated edition
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