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Description for Interzones
Paperback. From black female prostitution to homosexual brothels, from taxi dance halls to speakeasies, Mumford reconstructs the mixed-race underworld of the Great Migration and the Progressive era to reveal how these subcultures transformed not only race relations, but American culture as well. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFMX; JFSG; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and racial inequalities. Focusing on Chicago's South Side and Levee districts, and Greenwich Village and Harlem in New York at the height of the Progressive era, Mumford traces the connections between the Great Migration, the commercialization of leisure, and the politics of reform and urban renewal. Interzones is the first book to examine in depth the combined effects on ... Read more
Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and racial inequalities. Focusing on Chicago's South Side and Levee districts, and Greenwich Village and Harlem in New York at the height of the Progressive era, Mumford traces the connections between the Great Migration, the commercialization of leisure, and the politics of reform and urban renewal. Interzones is the first book to examine in depth the combined effects on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231104937
SKU
V9780231104937
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Ref
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About Kevin Mumford
Kevin Mumford is an independent scholar who holds a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has taught at the University of Minnesota.
Reviews for Interzones
An interesting addition to the ever-growing list of works dealing with questions of race and ethnicity.
Anna Notaro, University of Nottingham American Studies (UK) Mumford argues that the United States is unique in its historical anxiety about and regulation of black / white sex. Fears of 'miscegenation'played hidden but determinant roles in shaping racial and gender identities at the ... Read more
Anna Notaro, University of Nottingham American Studies (UK) Mumford argues that the United States is unique in its historical anxiety about and regulation of black / white sex. Fears of 'miscegenation'played hidden but determinant roles in shaping racial and gender identities at the ... Read more