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Jim Crow nostalgia : reconstructing race in Bronzeville / Michelle R. Boyd

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

Online-Ressource (xxxi, 211 p)

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Race, Nostalgia, and Neighborhood Redevelopment; 1. The Way We Were: Political Accommodation and Neighborhood Change, 1870-1950; 2. When We Were Colored: Black Civic Leadership and the Birth of Nostalgia, 1950-1990; 3. Back to the Future: Marketing the Race for Neighborhood Development; 4. Ties and Chitlins: Political Legitimacy and Racial Authentication; 5. We're All in This Mess Together: Identity and the Framing of Racial Agendas; Conclusion: Nostalgia and Identity in the Twenty-first Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-189) and index

Print version: Jim Crow Nostalgia : Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

0-8166-4678-3 ; 0-8166-4677-5 ; 978-0-8166-4678-4 ; 978-0-8166-4677-7

978-0-8166-4677-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

F548.68.B76

305.8009773/11     Ähnliche Literatur

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In the Jim Crow era of the early twentieth century, Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on the city's South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality and a destination for thousands of Southern blacks seeking new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration. After decades of decline, the 1980s saw several community organizations in the neighborhood collaborating on a revitalization plan called "Restoring Bronzeville," envisioning an idealized version of the neighborhood as it had thrived during segregation. Opening with a description by a Bronzeville tour guide, wis