Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 / Chad Heap.

Author: Heap, Chad C., 1967-

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

ISBN: 0226322432 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226322438 (cloth : alk. paper)

Description: xii, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Historical studies of urban America

Subject: Sex customs New York (State) New York History.
City and town life Illinois Chicago History.
Slums Social aspects New York (State) New York History.
Slums Social aspects Illinois Chicago History.
City and town life New York (State) New York History.
Sex customs Illinois Chicago History.
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations.
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) Race relations.
Chicago (Ill.) Social life and customs.

Contents: The spatial dynamics of slumming and the emergence of commercial leisure -- Into the slums: the spatial organization, cultural geography, and regulation of a new urban pastime -- Beyond the slums: commercial leisure and the reorganization and policing of urban space -- The changing conceptualization of sexuality and race in the slumming vogues of Chicago and New York -- Adventures in the slums and red-light districts -- The search for Bohemian thrillage -- The Negro vogue: excursions into a "mysterious dark world" -- The pansy and lesbian craze in white and black.