Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955

by Adam Green

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In Selling the Race, Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Along the way, he offers fascinating reinterpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition, the rise of black music and the culture industry that emerged around it, the development...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226306402

ISBN13:9780226306407

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

20th Century African-American Studies Business Business & Investing History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local Textbooks

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