Reed, Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930

Mark Ellis

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Abstract

This interdisciplinary collection of essays, edited by leading authorities on African American life in Chicago, will strike many readers as a companion to The Black Chicago Renaissance (2012), edited by Darlene Clark Hine, having some of the same contributors and the same publisher. Hine's volume covered the period from the early 1930s to the early 1950s and added much-needed balance to the usual emphasis on New York's Black cultural power in the 1920s by marking the distinctive industrial-bourgeois-migrant nexus of Black creativity in Chicago. It prompted growth in scholarship on Chicago and what the editors of Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance call “a significant remapping of African American cultural geography, situating the so-called Harlem Renaissance within broader spatial and temporal frames” (p. 3).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)442-443
Number of pages2
JournalThe Journal of American History
Volume109
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2022

Keywords

  • African American life
  • 1920s Chicago
  • Black Chicago Renaissance

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