Description
Book SynopsisInvestigates the institutions and streetscapes of Black Chicago that fueled an entire literary and artistic movement.
Trade Review"
Along the Streets of Bronzeville is a compelling and comprehensive history of Chicago's Black Renaissance. Along with her solid research and masterful prose, Schlabach shares may illustrations and archival documents to give life to this vibrant history of Bronzeville. All scholars interested in the history of black Chicago, African American cultural history, and literary history at large should read this book."-
-History: Reviews of New Books"Highly recommended."--
Choice "Schlabach strikes a fine balance between acknowledging and illuminating the provocative artistic and political endeavors characteristic of the Chicago Black Renaissance. . . . A rich, artistically oriented micro-history."--
Chicago Book Review"An insightful study of Chicago's streets, kitchenettes, numbers games, black counterpolitical culture, and artistic and literary figures of the mid-twentieth century. . . .
Along the Streets of Bronzeville accomplishes its primary project of extending our understanding of the rich complexity made possible by racial segregation and black cultural ingenuity in the face of white supremacy. Schlabach convincingly encourages renewed attention to black materiality, and aesthetics."--
Journal of American History"A thought-provoking, informative, and unique study. Schlabach offers her own fascinating take on the development of the Black Chicago Renaissance, its creative artists, and most impressively the geographies of the Black Belt as it evolved into Bronzeville and the new black public spaces created by successive waves of black migrants in the first half of the twentieth century."--Robert B. Stepto, author of
From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
