Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index
Introduction. "Chicago has no intelligentsia?": consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. The crisis of the Black bourgeoisie, or, What If Harold Cruse had lived in Chicago?
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