Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / Brian McCammack.
Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / Brian McCammack.
Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / Brian McCammack.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2018/5709
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English
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Physical content
364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Kinship with the soil -- Part I. The migration years, 1915-1929. "Booker T." Washington Park and Chicago's racial landscapes ; Black Chicagoans in unexpected places -- Part II. The Depression years, 1930-1940. Playgrounds and protest grounds ; Back to nature in hard times ; Building me...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
Between 1915 and 1940, hundreds of thousands of African Americans left their Southern homes to begin new lives in the North. Landscapes of Hope tells the story of black Chicagoans' environmental lives during the interwar years and undertakes a broad reassessment of the land's significance for black migrants nationwide. Drawing on original archival...
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Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / Brian McCammack.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2018/5709
Record Identifier
74VKV87LdywX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV87LdywX
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ISBN
0674976371 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780674976375 (hardcover alkaline paper)
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305.8960730773110904
MMS ID
991024188450702626
