Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance Steven C. Tracy "This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 19… OL16597122W
Negroland Negroland Margo Jefferson Born in upper-crust black Chicago—her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation’s oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite—Margo Jefferson has spent most o… OL17617055W
Pimp Pimp Beck, Robert,Iceberg Slim,Irvine Welsh This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are sti… OL1853064W
High-risers High-risers Ben Austen Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an … OL19754125W
Black Chicago's first century Black Chicago's first century Christopher Robert Reed "Examines the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in Chicago. It spans the antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods"--Provided by pub… OL23895W