Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton , Richard Wright

Ethics ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-149
Author(s):  
T. V. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wright ◽  
Black Metropolis ◽  
Northern City

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

1946 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Ulysses Lee ◽  
Clair Drake ◽  
Horace R. Cayton
Keyword(s):  
Black Metropolis ◽  
Northern City

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Robert Reed
Keyword(s):  
Political Organization ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Black Metropolis ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
Professional Class ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church ◽  
Northern City

For over a half century, perhaps the best scholarly work exploring African American life in large, industrialized, northern cities with expanding populations has been St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton's Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945). However, a formal history examining businesses as part of an institutional structure, the role of a professional class, religion and the church, and political organization was never undertaken in Black Metropolis. The present volume presents the contributing factors that produced the contemporarily recognized dynamism of the period between 1920 and 1929 as well as the many impediments encountered. Hindsight has produced a view of life in this vibrant area of settlement, one that was not yet the “ghetto” that future historians in the 1960s would envision and write about.

Black Metropolis--A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.

1946 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clair Drake ◽  
Horace R. Cayton
Keyword(s):  
Black Metropolis ◽  
Northern City

Crumbling into Dust

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Levi Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Black Newspapers ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
David Walker ◽  
Historical Times

This chapter situates Chesnutt’s writing within a tradition of black classicism as political engagement and historical critique extending from the antebellum period to the twentieth century and beyond. Reading Chesnutt as a figure at the crossroads of multiple historical times and cultural forms, the chapter examines his manipulation of multiple mythic traditions into a cohesive and unsettling vision of history as unfinished business. In the novel The Marrow of Tradition and the late short story “The Marked Tree,” Chesnutt echoes a nineteenth-century tradition that included David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and writers and editors for antebellum black newspapers, while at the same time anticipating a later anti-imperial discourse generated by writers such as Richard Wright and Toni Morrison. Chesnutt provides a fulcrum for a collective African American literary history that has emerged as a prophetic counterpoint to the prevailing historical consciousness in America.

Profusion and Parody in Barcelona

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Christoforidis
Keyword(s):  
Local Color ◽  
Genero Chico ◽  
Northern City

The cosmopolitan northern city of Barcelona played host to Carmen’s Spanish premiere in 1881, starring Célestine Galli-Marié, and although the opera failed to take root at this point, Barcelona’s status as a center of entertainment in a variety of Spanish genres and a keen purveyor of European trends set the stage for Carmen’s return in the late 1880s. This revival led to a proliferation of competing productions in the early 1890s, and a degree of popularity that inspired the composition of a successful parody, the género chico work Carmela (1891), which subverted the local color and melodies of Bizet’s opera for a Hispanic audience and toured Spain and the Americas for several years.

Religion, Race, and Humanism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony B. Pinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unitarian Universalist ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lorraine Hansberry

This chapter explores the history of humanism within African American communities. It positions humanist thinking and humanism-inspired activism as a significant way in which people of African descent in the United States have addressed issues of racial injustice. Beginning with critiques of theism found within the blues, moving through developments such as the literature produced by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, to political activists such as W. E. B. DuBois and A. Philip Randolph, to organized humanism in the form of African American involvement in the Unitarian Universalist Association, African Americans for Humanism, and so on, this chapter presents the historical and institutional development of African American humanism.

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