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Black metropolis : a study of Negro life in a northern city
Author
Title
Black metropolis : a study of Negro life in a northern city / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton ; with an introduction by Richard Wright.
Published
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co. ; c1945.
Physical Description
xxxiv, 809 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BEIN JWJ Zan D789 945B: Dust jacket. Introduction autographed by Richard Wright, Oct. 27, 1945, New York City (p. xxxiv). Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten. Laid in: Errata slip typed on publisher's letterhead.
BEIN JWJ Zan W936 945D: Two dust jackets. Presentation inscription from Argyle Stoite to Claude McKay, Dec., 1945. Errata slip pasted in.
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2824: Dust jacket. From the library of Bradford H. Gray. Accompanied by: obituary for Horace R. Clayton from the New York Times for January 25, 1970.
Notes
"First edition."
Summary
This book is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers. It offers a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century.
Variant and related titles
Study of Negro life in a northern city
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 783-796) and index.
Contents
Author's Acknowledgment
Introduction by Richard Wright
Introduction to the Torchbook Edition by Everett C. Hughes
Introduction: Midwest Metropolis
Part 1: 1. Flight to Freedom
2. Land of Promise
3. The Great Migration
4. Race Riot and Aftermath
5. Between Two Wars
Part 2: 6. Along the Color-Line
7. Crossing the Color-Line
8. The Black Ghetto
9. The Job Ceiling
10. The Shifting Line of Color
11. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Breaking the Job Ceiling
12. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Black Workers and the New Unions
13. Democracy and Political Expendiency
Appendix: Black Metropolis 1961
Authors' Preface
Part 3: 14. Bronzeville
15. The Power of Press and Pulpit
16. Negro Business: Myth and Fact
17. Business Under a Cloud
18. The Measure of the Man
19. Style of Living- Upper Class
20. Lower Class: Sex and Family
21. The World of the Lower Class
22. The Middle-class Way of Life
23. Advancing the Race
Part 4: 24. Of Things to Come
Bronzeville 1961
A Methodological Note by W. Lloyd Warner
Notes and Documentation
A List of Selected Books Dealing with the American Negro
Suggestions for Collateral Reading, 1962
Index.
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Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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