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Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theater, music, and intellectualism, from 1930 to 1955. Anne Meis Knupfer's The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism demonstrates the complexity of black women's many vital contributions to this unique cultural flowering.

The book examines various groups of black female activists, including writers and actresses, social workers, artists, school teachers, and women's club members to document the impact of social class, gender, nativity, educational attainment, and professional affiliations on their activism. Together, these women worked to sponsor black history and literature, to protest overcrowded schools, and to act as a force for improved South Side housing and employment opportunities. Knupfer also reveals the crucial role these women played in founding and sustaining black cultural institutions, such as the first African American art museum in the country; the first African American library in Chicago; and various African American literary journals and newspapers. As a point of contrast, Knupfer also examines the overlooked activism of working-class and poor women in the Ida B. Wells and Altgeld Gardens housing projects.

Zusammenfassung

Anne Meis Knupfer is an associate professor of educational studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court and Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Models of Black Activism 2. Parkway Community House 3. Community Sponsorship of Literature and the Arts 4. Schools as Sites of Activism 5. Black Women's Clubs 6. Women's Activism in Public Housing 7. The Chicago YWCAs Conclusion Appendix A. List of Black Female Community Activists, Artists, and Professionals, 1930-60 Appendix B. List of Black Southside Community Organizations and Addresses, 1930-60 Notes Bibliography Illustrations follow page 000

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780252072932
ISBN-10:	0252072936
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Knupfer, Anne Meis
Hersteller:	University of Illinois Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Abbildungen:	17 black & white photographs; 1 line drawing
Maße:	14 x 152 x 229 mm
Von/Mit:	Anne Meis Knupfer
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.03.2006
Gewicht:	0,426 kg