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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton

How did Chicago's Black community grow, and how did race and class shape its work, homes, churches and politics?

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25 parts, about 48 minutes to read.

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Author: St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton
Parts: 25 parts
Reading time: about 48 minutes

Why read it

You will see how residential segregation creates a zone of potential conflict all around the edge of a Black district
You will be able to look behind a headline figure, as Black workers were not overrepresented in manual labor yet did its worst paid jobs
You will learn how a refuge for escaped slaves became a citadel of economic and political power inside a great city

Who it is for

Sociology student studying city life and caste
Chicago reader curious about the South Side's past
Policy maker thinking about housing and segregation

What the summary covers

Introduction: Midwest Metropolis2 min
1. Flight to Freedom2 min
2. Land of Promise2 min
3. The Great Migration1 min
4. Race Riot and Aftermath2 min
5. Between Two Wars2 min
6. Along the Color Line2 min
7. Crossing the Color Line2 min
8. The Black Ghetto2 min
9. The Job Ceiling2 min
10. The Shifting Line of Color2 min
11. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Breaking the Job Ceiling2 min
12. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Black Workers and the New Unions2 min
13. Democracy and Political Expediency2 min
14. Bronzeville2 min
15. The Power of Press and Pulpit2 min
16. Negro Business: Myth and Fact2 min
17. Business Under a Cloud2 min
18. The Measure of the Man2 min
19. Style of Living: Upper Class2 min
20. Lower Class: Sex and Family2 min
21. The World of the Lower Class2 min
22. The Middle class Way of Life2 min
23. Advancing the Race2 min
24. Of Things to Come1 min

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