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

by Adam Green

Book Overview

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"