Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban LifeUniv of North Carolina Press, 2009年11月30日 - 384 頁 As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a "marketplace intellectual life." Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life. |
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Making Do Beauty Enterprise and the Makeover of Race Womanhood | 53 |
Theaters of War Spectacles Amusements and the Emergence of Urban Film Culture | 91 |
The Birth of Two Nations White Fears Black Jeers and the Rise of a Race Film Consciousness | 121 |
Sacred Tastes The Migrant Aesthetics and Authority of Gospel Music | 155 |
The Sporting Life Recreation SelfReliance and Competing Visions of Race Manhood | 193 |
The Crisis of the Black Bourgeoisie Or What If Harold Cruse Had Lived in Chicago? | 233 |
Notes | 243 |
Bibliography | 297 |
Index | 355 |
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第 160 頁 - I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called the Negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
第 53 頁 - Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face. I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race. I went into a business that is despised, that is criticized and talked about by everybody—the business of growing hair.
第 68 頁 - One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, but I sent for it, mixed it, put it on my scalp, and in a few weeks, my hair was coming in faster than it had ever fallen out.
第 53 頁 - ... land of the free and home of the brave, and since it was so small, the ring was stronger than the town.
第 27 頁 - These characteristics manifest themselves in a genial, sunny, and social disposition, in an interest and attachment to external, physical things rather than to subjective states and objects of introspection; in a disposition for expression rather than enterprise and action.
第 69 頁 - Right here let me correct the erroneous impression held by some that I claim to straighten the hair. I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
第 44 頁 - South State Street was in its glory then, a teeming Negro street with crowded theaters, restaurants, and cabarets. And excitement from noon to noon. Midnight was like day. The street was full of workers and gamblers, prostitutes and pimps, church folks and sinners.
第 140 頁 - During a death scene flashed on the screen, you are likely to hear the orchestra jazzing away on 'Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie.
第 53 頁 - Then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. ... I have built my own factory on my own ground.
第 40 頁 - Is it any wonder that a tempted girl who receives only six dollars per week working with her hands sells her body for twenty-five dollars per week when she learns there is a demand for it and men are willing to pay the price. On the one hand her employer demands honesty, faithfulness and a "clean and neat appearance," and for all this he contributes from his profits an average of six dollars for every week.