The Black Chicago Renaissance

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"This collection reveals that 1930s-50s Chicago had enough African American artists who were born, worked, or studied there-in the applied, performing, and recording arts, social sciences, and literature-to constitute a critical mass rivaling the earlier cultural exuberance of Harlem."--Choice

"The book offers highly readable essays from scholars who tell stories about the artists -- including some Harlem Renaissance ex-parts who came to Chicago -- and the conditions that contributed to a major arts movement in the city that lasted for more than two decades."--Chicago Tribune "A lively, useful anthology of ten critical essays on Chicago's remarkable upturn in black cultural politics and political culture at midcentury."--Journal of Illinois History
"A service to all readers interested in twentieth-century American cultural history."--Literature & History

"The Black Chicago Renaissance offers an in-depth investigation of the Renaissance and. . . . Positions itself as one of the most successful works of scholarship on this movement. . . . A must-read for American culture, African-American culture, and African-American and American history studies."--Journal of American Culture

"The Black Chicago Renaissance is an informative. . . anthology of ten essays that analyzes the city's African American cultural fluorescence from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. . . .Offers pioneering research on multiple understudied topics."--The Journal of American History "Hine and McCluskey fill the gap found in the scholarship regarding the rise of black artistic communities."--The Journal of American Ethnic History