UNC-CH Summer Reading Program 1999

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UNC-CH Summer Reading Program 1999
There Are No Children Here: Selected Additional Readings
Compiled by Peter Coclanis, Ph. D.
George and Alice Welsh Professor and Chair of the History Department
and
Jerma Jackson, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of History

Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Harris, Michael W. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Hirsch, Arnold R. "Chicago: The Cook County Democratic Organization and the Dilemma of Race, 1931-1987." In Snowbelt Cities: Metropolitan Politics in the Northeast and Midwest since World War II, edited by Richard M. Bernard, 63-90. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Hirsch, Arnold R. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Kelley, Robin D. G. "'We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South." The Journal of American History 80, no. 1. (June 1993): 75-112.
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Knopf, 1991.
Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Michael B. Katz, editor. The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Quadagno, Jill S. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
"This American Life: Harold."
Show for Saturday, November 22, 1997.
Program broadcast ten years after Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, died. What his career meant to the city and the nation: a parable of race relations and politics, and why the mayors of the nation's three largest cities are now all white.
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Note: For more suggested readings, see also bibliographies compiled by Audreye E. Johnson and Joel Schwartz.

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