Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

摘要: As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center consumer capitalism, flourishing professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other cultural communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass marketplace generated vibrant intellectual life planted seeds political dissent against dehumanizing effects white capitalism. Pushing traditional boundaries Harlem Renaissance to frontiers, identifies fresh model culture rich politics, ingenuity, entrepreneurship. explores abundant archive formations where array observers, producers, critics, activists, reformers, migrant consumers converged in what he terms "market-place life." Here thoughts lives Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions much wider spectrum possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside more formal arenas church academe, suggests important directions for both historical study constructive future ideas politics American life.