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Landscapes of Hope : Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / Brian McCammack.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) : 24 halftones, 7 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674982604
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/0730773110904 23
LOC classification:
  • F548.9.N4
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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