Main entry:

Drake, St. Clair, author.

Title & Author:

Black metropolis : a study of Negro life in a northern city / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton ; with an introduction by Richard Wright ; and a new foreword by William Julius Wilson.

Edition:

Revised and enlarged edition.
University of Chicago Press edition

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Description:

lii, 858 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Previously published in 2 v.: Rev. and enl. ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1970], in series: Harbinger book.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-845) and index.
Introduction / Richard Wright -- Introduction to the 1962 edition / Everett C. Hughes -- Author's preface to the 1962 edition -- Foreword to the 1993 edition / William Julius Wilson -- Introduction : Midwest metropolis -- Flight to freedom -- Land of promise -- The great migration -- Race riot and aftermath -- Between two wars -- Along the color-line -- Crossing the color-line -- The Black ghetto -- The job ceiling -- The shifting line of color -- Democracy and economic necessity : breaking the job ceiling -- Democracy and economic necessity : Black workers and the new unions -- Democracy and political expediency -- Bronzeville -- The power of press and pulpit -- Negro business : myth and fact -- Business under a cloud -- The measure of the man -- Style of living, upper class -- Lower class : sex and family -- The world of the lower class -- The middle-class way of life -- Advancing the race -- Of things to come -- A methodological note / W. Lloyd Warner -- Bronzeville 1961 -- Black metropolis 1961 -- Postscript 1969 -- A list of selected books dealing with the American Negro.

Summary:

"Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto. Drake and Cayton's findings not only offer a generalized analysis of Black migration, settlement, community structure, and Black-white race relations in the early part of the twentieth century, but also tell us what has changed in the last hundred years and what has not. This edition includes the original Introduction by Richard Wright and a new Foreword by William Julius Wilson."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226162346 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226162348 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

African Americans Illinois Chicago Social conditions.
African Americans Illinois Chicago Economic conditions.
Noirs américains Illinois Chicago Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains Illinois Chicago Conditions économiques.
African Americans Economic conditions
African Americans Social conditions
Economic history
Social conditions
Metropolen.
Zwarten.
AFRO-DESCENDENTES (CONDICÕES SOCIAIS) ILLINOIS.
Noirs américains Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains Conditions économiques.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) Economic conditions.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago (Ill.)
Chicago (Ill.) Relations interethniques.
Geschichte 1890-1944

Added entries:

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960, writer of introduction.
Wilson, William J., 1935- writer of foreword.
Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 103638
Call No.: ID F548.9.N4.D73; ID:94-B1820
Status: Available