TY - BOOK AU - McCammack,Brian TI - Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago SN - 9780674982604 AV - F548.9.N4 U1 - 305.896/0730773110904 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - African Americans KW - Illinois KW - Chicago KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Social conditions KW - Human geography KW - Recreation areas KW - Michigan KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Kinship with the Soil --; Part I. The Migration Years, 1915–1929 --; 1. “Booker T.” Washington Park and Chicago’s Racial Landscapes --; 2. Black Chicagoans in Unexpected Places --; Part II. The Depression Years, 1930–1940 --; 3. Playgrounds and Protest Grounds --; 4. Back to Nature in Hard Times --; 5. Building Men and Building Trees --; Epilogue: A Century of Migration to That Great Iron City --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Brian McCammack travels to Chicago’s parks and beaches as well as farms and forests of the rural Midwest, where African Americans retreated to relax and reconnect with southern identities and lifestyles they had left behind UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982604 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674982604 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674982604.jpg ER -