Search Results - Whites

White on arrival Italians, race, color, and power in Chicago, 1890-1945 / by Guglielmo, Thomas A.

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Shades of white flight : evangelical congregations and urban departure / by Mulder, Mark T., 1973-

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The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967 by Absher, Amy

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The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967 by Absher, Amy

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Double cross Japanese Americans in Black and white Chicago / by Harden, Jacalyn D.

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Black on the block the politics of race and class in the city / by Pattillo, Mary E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 4432 Berkeley -- The Black bourgeoisie meets the truly disadvantaged -- White power, Black brokers -- Remedies to "educational malpractice" -- The case against public housing -- The case for public housing -- Avenging violence with violence -- Conclusion.…”
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American pogrom the East St. Louis Race Riot and Black politics / by Lumpkins, Charles L.

Table of Contents: “…Historical roots of an African American community, 1800-1898 -- The African American political experience, 1898-1915 -- The May uprising : an end to expanding Black power -- The July massacre : "we'll have a White man's town" -- Return to the political arena, 1917-1929 -- Breaking the deadlock, 1930-1945.…”
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Grant Park the evolution of Chicago's front yard / by Cremin, Dennis H.

Table of Contents: “…Early Park History : Lake, Land, and Place -- Lake Park : A Cultural and Civic Center -- The World's Columbian Exposition and Chicago's Cultural Flowering -- Making the White City Permanent -- The New Design -- Gateway and Cultural Center : From A Century of Progress to Postwar Park -- Parking Lots, Protests, and Mayhem : Grant Park in the Daley Era -- The Park Reenvisioned and Renewed.…”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / by Baldwin, Davarian L.

Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago ; Puerto Rican "spatio-temporal rhythms" of housing and work / Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores ; Footnotes of social justice: Elena Padilla and Chicago Puerto Rican communities / Mérida M. Rúa ; "White" Puerto Rican migrants, the Mexican colony, "Americanization," and Latino history / Nicholas De Genova ; Gendering "Latino public intellectuals": Personal narratives in the ethnography of Elena Padilla / Ana Y. …”
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