A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago
Autor E. James Westen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 apr 2022
- Winner of the 2023 Michael Nelson Prize of International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
- Recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award
- Winner of the 2023 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year
- Winner of the 2023 ULCC’s (Union League Club of Chicago) Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago Award
- Recipient of a 2023 Best of Illinois History Superior Achievement award from the Illinois State Historical Society
- Winner of the 2023 BAAS Book Prize (British Association for American Studies)
- Winner of a 2023 The Brinck Book Award and Lecture series (University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning)
- Honorable Mention for the 2021-22 RSAP Book Prize (Research Society for American Periodicals)
Engaging and innovative, A House for the Struggle reconsiders the Black press's place at the crossroads where aspiration collided with life in one of America's most segregated cities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780252086397
ISBN-10: 0252086392
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 20 black & white photographs, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10: 0252086392
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 20 black & white photographs, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Recenzii
"A well-conceived, effectively researched, and fascinating book." --Choice
"A House for the Struggle is an eye-opening, compelling read in which West shows that Black press buildings on Chicago’s South Side were symbolic of community pride, unity and success, as well as crucial meeting places in the fight for Black autonomy and civil rights." --NewCity
"A fresh and engaging work that explores how the design of a built environment can often be a destiny. " --Chicago Review of Books
"A House for the Struggle breaks new ground by assessing Chicago's Black newspapers and magazines together, and by connecting them to the buildings and neighborhoods where they operated. E. James West reminds us that journalists with national reach and tremendous ambition still faced the frustrations and indignities of life in a segregated metropolis, and he helps us to understand Chicago as the true capital of the twentieth-century Black press."--Julia Guarneri, author of Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
"A House for the Struggle provides fresh insights into the history of the Black press in Chicago. Through the lens of the built environment, West's compelling narrative takes us inside the newsrooms of the Defender, Ebony, and other rival publications--from their humble origins to the height of their power. But what makes this book extraordinary is how West examines these shifting Black spaces of journalism as crucial sites of intellectual labor, ideological debate, and enterprise that profoundly shaped Chicago urban history, Black identity, and protest politics in twentieth century America."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
"West's A House for the Struggle is a well-written and thought-provoking chronicle of urban, media, African American, labor, and cultural history. The connections between political, spatial, economic, and cultural institutions were unique and other cities could model a similar investigation on the local built environment of African American industry." --H-Net Reviews
"A House for the Struggle is an eye-opening, compelling read in which West shows that Black press buildings on Chicago’s South Side were symbolic of community pride, unity and success, as well as crucial meeting places in the fight for Black autonomy and civil rights." --NewCity
"A fresh and engaging work that explores how the design of a built environment can often be a destiny. " --Chicago Review of Books
"A House for the Struggle breaks new ground by assessing Chicago's Black newspapers and magazines together, and by connecting them to the buildings and neighborhoods where they operated. E. James West reminds us that journalists with national reach and tremendous ambition still faced the frustrations and indignities of life in a segregated metropolis, and he helps us to understand Chicago as the true capital of the twentieth-century Black press."--Julia Guarneri, author of Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
"A House for the Struggle provides fresh insights into the history of the Black press in Chicago. Through the lens of the built environment, West's compelling narrative takes us inside the newsrooms of the Defender, Ebony, and other rival publications--from their humble origins to the height of their power. But what makes this book extraordinary is how West examines these shifting Black spaces of journalism as crucial sites of intellectual labor, ideological debate, and enterprise that profoundly shaped Chicago urban history, Black identity, and protest politics in twentieth century America."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
"West's A House for the Struggle is a well-written and thought-provoking chronicle of urban, media, African American, labor, and cultural history. The connections between political, spatial, economic, and cultural institutions were unique and other cities could model a similar investigation on the local built environment of African American industry." --H-Net Reviews
Notă biografică
E. James West is a research associate in American history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 A Card Table and a Kitchen Chair 21
2 A Monument to Negro Enterprise 49
3 A Building on a Front Street 81
4 A Meeting Place for All the People 115
5 A House for the Struggle 147
6 A Poem in Marble and Glass 181
Conclusion 213
Notes 221
Bibliography 259
Index 273
Introduction 1
1 A Card Table and a Kitchen Chair 21
2 A Monument to Negro Enterprise 49
3 A Building on a Front Street 81
4 A Meeting Place for All the People 115
5 A House for the Struggle 147
6 A Poem in Marble and Glass 181
Conclusion 213
Notes 221
Bibliography 259
Index 273