Selling the race : culture, community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 / Adam Green.
Author: Green, Adam, 1963-
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
ISBN: 0226306410 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description: xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Subject: 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.
Contents: In search of African-American modernity : an introduction -- Imagining the future -- Making the music -- The ends of clientage -- Selling the race -- A moment of simultaneity -- Conclusion : an African-American dilemma.
