Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

An expansive introduction to Chicago's great cultural explosion
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance comprehensively explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement that emerged from the crucible of rigid segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers, its participants were invested in political activism and social change as much as literature, art, and aesthetics. The revolutionary writing of this era produced some of the first great accolades for African American literature and set up much of the important writing that came to fruition in the Black Arts Movement.

The volume covers a vast collection of subjects, including many important writers such as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry as well as cultural products such as black newspapers, music, and theater. The book includes individual entries by experts on each subject; a discography and filmography that highlight important writers, musicians, films, and cultural presentations; and an introduction that relates the Harlem Renaissance, the White Chicago Renaissance, the Black Chicago Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement.

Contributors are Robert Butler, Robert H. Cataliotti, Maryemma Graham, James C. Hall, James L. Hill, Michael Hill, Lovalerie King, Lawrence Jackson, Angelene Jamison-Hall, Keith Leonard, Lisbeth Lipari, Bill V. Mullen, Patrick Naick, William R. Nash, Charlene Regester, Kimberly Ruffin, Elizabeth Schultz, Joyce Hope Scott, James Smethurst, Kimberly M. Stanley, Kathryn Waddell Takara, Steven C. Tracy, Zoe Trodd, Alan Wald, Jamal Eric Watson, Donyel Hobbs Williams, Stephen Caldwell Wright, and Richard Yarborough.

Contributor: Steven C. Tracy (Edited by), Robert Butler (Contributions by), Robert H Cataliotti (Contributions by), Maryemma Graham (Contributions by), James C. Hall (Contributions by), James L Hill (Contributions by), Michael Hill (Contributions by), Lovalerie King (Contributions by), Lawrence Jackson (Contributions by), Angelene Jamison-Hall (Contributions by), Keith Leonard (Contributions by), Lisbeth Lipari (Contributions by), Bill V Mullen (Contributions by), Patrick Naick (Contributions by), William R. Nash (Contributions by), Charlene Regester (Contributions by), Kimberly Ruffin (Contributions by), Elizabeth Schultz (Contributions by), Joyce Hope Scott (Contributions by), James Smethurst (Contributions by), Kimberly M Stanley (Contributions by), Kathryn Waddell Takara (Contributions by), Steven C. Tracy (Contributions by), Zoe Trodd (Contributions by), Alan Wald (Contributions by), Jamal Eric Watson (Contributions by), Donyel Hobbs Williams (Contributions by), Stephen Caldwell Wright (Contributions by), Richard Yarborougha (Contributions by)

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