{"product_id":"a-peoples-history-of-chicago-9781642591033","title":"A People's History of Chicago","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown variously as “‘the Windy City,”’ “‘the City of Big Shoulders,”’ or “‘Chi-Raq,”’ Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world.  Chicago is the city of Gwendolyn Brooks and Chief Keef, Al Capone and Richard Wright, Lucy Parsons and Nelson Algren, Harold Washington and Studs Terkel. It is the city of Fred Hampton, House Music, and the Haymarket Martyrs.  Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold. These seventy-seven poems (for the city’s seventy-seven neighborhoods) honor the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city’s workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape.  Kevin Coval is the poet\/author\/editor of seven books including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and the play, This Iis Modern Art, co-written with Idris Goodwin. Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival and the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors, Coval teaches hip-hop aesthetics at the University of Illinois–-Chicago. The Chicago Tribune has named him “the voice of the new Chicago“ and the Boston Globe calls him “the city’s unofficial poet laureate.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet, what it is to be an artist and what it is to serve the people.\" –Chance the Rapper   \"...incantatory spoken-word assailing notions of racial purity”  –New York Times  \"Kevin Coval has given us a gift, a collection of heartfelt, piercing poems, stories really, about America’s city.\" –Alex Kotlowitz author of There Are No Children Here  \"This vibrant, dynamic collection of vignettes exposes the naked truth of our fair city.\" –Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teacher's Union  \"The spine of this book of the People's History of Chicago is the people's resistance and struggle for justice and a fair shake. Coval is in the Chicago Tradition – fire, earth, and endless blues.\" –Angela Jackson, author of Where I Must Go, winner of the American Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\"Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet, what it is to be an artist and what it is to serve the people.\" –Chance the Rapper  \"...incantatory spoken-word assailing notions of racial purity” –New York Times  \"Kevin Coval has given us a gift, a collection of heartfelt, piercing poems, stories really, about America’s city.\" –Alex Kotlowitz author of There Are No Children Here  \"This vibrant, dynamic collection of vignettes exposes the naked truth of our fair city.\" –Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teacher's Union  \"The spine of this book of the People's History of Chicago is the people's resistance and struggle for justice and a fair shake. Coval is in the Chicago Tradition – fire, earth, and endless blues.\" –Angela Jackson, author of Where I Must Go, winner of the American Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. chicagu  2. shikaakwa  3. LaSalle wrote it down wrong  4. the father is a Black man  5. The Treaty of Chicago  6. player with railroads  7. hog butcher for the world  8. Albert Parsons can hang  9. how to be down  10. the L gets open  11. the white city  12. Eugene Debs reads Marx in prison  13. reversing the flow \/ \\ \/ of the Chicago river  14. The Burnham Plan of Chicago  15. The Great Migration  16. The Eastland Disaster  17. the murder of Eugene Williams  18. Society for Human Rights  19. Thomas Dorsey, Gospel's Daddy  20. Katherine Dunham opens her dance school  21. Gwendolyn Brooks stands in The Mecca  22. The South Side Writer's Group (a broke cento)  23. Hansberry vs. Lee  24. Muddy Waters goes electric  25. Nelson Algren meets Simone de Beauvoir at the palmer house  26. pickle with a peppermint stick  27. Sun Ra becomes a synthesizer  28. hugh hefner, a play boy  29. the Black monk of wrigley field  30. University of Illinois-Chicago  31. at the Roberts Temple Church of G-d, 4021 S. State St.  32. The Division Street Riots  33. Martin Luther King prays in marquette park  34. Chicago\/america's greatest listener  35. Carl Sandburg Village (where my parents met)  36. Wall of Respect  37. AfriCOBRA  38. the wrestler: a chicago poster boy  39. The Assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton  40. Ray Yoshida, Chicago Imagist, Dotted Charmer  41. don l. lee becomes Haki Madhubuti  42. The Chicago 21 Plan  43. new town  44. leaving Aldine  45. Disco Demolition  46. mayor byrne moves into \u0026amp; out of Cabrini Green  47. Ron Hardy plays the record backwards  48. the assignation of Rudy Lozano  49. Marc Smith invents the poetry slam  50. collateral damage  51. The Day Harold Died  52. the year Michael Jordan breaks the law  53. patronage  54. fresh to death  55. molemen beat tapes  56. mayor daley wishes the white city (a Chi-ku)  57. Graffiti Blasters: an erasure  58. NAFTA  59. The 1994 World Cup (a second city improv sketch)  60. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act  61. The Etymology of Chicago Joe  62. Common's Resurrection  63. the supreme court makes color illegal  64. Erasing the Green  65. Ida B. Wells testifies in the ghost town of The Ida B. Wells Homes  66. how to teach poetry in Chicago public schools  67. Lenard Clark peddles for air  68. baby come on: an ode to footwork  69. Juice serves eminem at Scribble Jam  70. A Moratorium on the Death Penalty  71. praise the house party  72. Día de las Madres  73. the crown fountain in millennium park  74. Kanye says what's on everybody's mind  75. The White Sox win the World Series: Pop's ars poetica  76. the coach is a bear  77. i wasn't in grant park when obama was elected  78. Republic Window Workers Sit-in  79. A Eulogy for Jeff Maldonado Jr.  80. the night the modern wing was bombed  81. Falling Up  82. when King Louie first heard the word chiraq  83. an elegy for Dr. Margaret Burroughs  84. a dedication to the inaugural poet  85. rod blagojevich at the end of his run  86. #HeyMa is trending on Mother’s Day  87. memoir of the red x  88. Teachers Strike in The Chicago Tradition  89. we real  90. standards  91. during Ramadan the gates of heaven are open  92. Chicago Cultural Center: a battle rap  93. Ms. Devine explains the meaning of Modern Art: a found poem  94. 82 shot, 14 murdered: the two cities celebrate independence day  95. why Derrick Rose  96. We Charge Genocide  97. there is a target on the grave of Cabrini Green  98. atoning for the neo-liberal in all or rahm emmanuel as the chicken on Kapparot  99. 400 days  100. Chicago has my heart","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359873171799,"sku":"9781642591033","price":35.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642591033.jpg?v=1754125970","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-peoples-history-of-chicago-9781642591033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}