The Black Chicago Renaissance
Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.
Abstract
Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. This book analyzes this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working-class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. The chapters discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the ... More
Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. This book analyzes this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working-class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. The chapters discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the Harlem Renaissance and place the development of black culture in a national and international context. The chapters also provoke explorations of renaissances in other cities. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, and the American Negro Exposition of 1940.
Keywords:
Black Chicago Renaissance,
cultural renaissance,
African American creativity,
African American music,
performance art,
social science scholarship,
artistic expression,
Harlem Renaissance,
black culture
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252037023 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 |
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252037023.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Darlene Clark Hine, editor
John McCluskey Jr., editor
Indiana University
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