Return to the Black Metropolis: New Histories of Black Chicago
edited by Simon Balto and Erik S. Gellman
University of Illinois Press, 2027
Cloth: 979-8-2404-0013-1 | Paper: 979-8-2404-0014-8 | eISBN: 979-8-2404-0015-5 (standard)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Published in 1945, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City remains an essential portrait of the diversity, nuance, and complexity of Black people’s lives in Chicago. The foundational book’s immense legacy includes the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), an initiative dedicated to facilitating access to and use of Chicago’s African American archival materials.
Simon Balto and Erik S. Gellman edit a collection of the research and historical scholarship that have emerged from BMRC programs. The editors organize the contributions along thematic lines: policing, incarceration, and survival; protest politics; historical, literary, and artistic representations of African Americans; and photography’s role in commerce, art, and activism. Throughout, the contributors explore the understanding of Black Metropolis as a living concept that both reflects and embodies the dynamism of Black Chicago.
An exciting collection of cutting-edge scholarship, Return to the Black Metropolis captures the spirit of the foundational text while adding to the decades-long promise of, in the words of Timuel Black, bringing historical knowledge forward.
Contributors: Sumayya Ahmed, Richard Benson, Kimberly Black-Parker, Richard A. Courage, Ashley Dennis, Melissa Ford, Michelle Johnson, Mark Koschmann, Nick Kryczka, Amy Mooney, Melanie D. Newport, Ian Rocksborough-Smith, E. James West, Jakobi Williams
Simon Balto and Erik S. Gellman edit a collection of the research and historical scholarship that have emerged from BMRC programs. The editors organize the contributions along thematic lines: policing, incarceration, and survival; protest politics; historical, literary, and artistic representations of African Americans; and photography’s role in commerce, art, and activism. Throughout, the contributors explore the understanding of Black Metropolis as a living concept that both reflects and embodies the dynamism of Black Chicago.
An exciting collection of cutting-edge scholarship, Return to the Black Metropolis captures the spirit of the foundational text while adding to the decades-long promise of, in the words of Timuel Black, bringing historical knowledge forward.
Contributors: Sumayya Ahmed, Richard Benson, Kimberly Black-Parker, Richard A. Courage, Ashley Dennis, Melissa Ford, Michelle Johnson, Mark Koschmann, Nick Kryczka, Amy Mooney, Melanie D. Newport, Ian Rocksborough-Smith, E. James West, Jakobi Williams
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