{"product_id":"a-house-for-the-struggle-9780252086397","title":"A House for the Struggle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-conceived, effectively researched, and fascinating book.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA House for the Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening, compelling read in which West shows that Black press buildings on Chicago’s South Side were symbolic of community pride, unity and success, as well as crucial meeting places in the fight for Black autonomy and civil rights.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewCity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fresh and engaging work that explores how the design of a built environment can often be a destiny. \" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA House for the Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground by assessing Chicago's Black newspapers and magazines together, and by connecting them to the buildings and neighborhoods where they operated. E. James West reminds us that journalists with national reach and tremendous ambition still faced the frustrations and indignities of life in a segregated metropolis, and he helps us to understand Chicago as the true capital of the twentieth-century Black press.\"--Julia Guarneri, author of \u003ci\u003eNewsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA House for the Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e provides fresh insights into the history of the Black press in Chicago. Through the lens of the built environment, West's compelling narrative takes us inside the newsrooms of the \u003ci\u003eDefender, Ebony\u003c\/i\u003e, and other rival publications--from their humble origins to the height of their power. But what makes this book extraordinary is how West examines these shifting Black spaces of journalism as crucial sites of intellectual labor, ideological debate, and enterprise that profoundly shaped Chicago urban history, Black identity, and protest politics in twentieth century America.\"--Erik S. Gellman, author of \u003ci\u003eTroublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fresh and engaging work that explores how the design of a built environment can often be a destiny. \" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"West's \u003ci\u003eA House for the Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-written and thought-provoking chronicle of urban, media, African American, labor, and cultural history. The connections between political, spatial, economic, and cultural institutions were unique and other cities could model a similar investigation on the local built environment of African American industry.\" --\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 A Card Table and a Kitchen Chair 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 A Monument to Negro Enterprise 49\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 A Building on a Front Street 81\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 A Meeting Place for All the People 115\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 A House for the Struggle 147\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 A Poem in Marble and Glass 181\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion 213\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes 221\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography 259\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex 273\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400520278359,"sku":"9780252086397","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252086397.jpg?v=1730470883","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-house-for-the-struggle-9780252086397","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}