Interzones Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century

Name: Interzones Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780231104937

ISBN-10: 0231104936

ISBN-13: 9780231104937

Edition: 1997

Authors: Kevin Mumford, Kevin Mumford

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Interzonesis 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. Interzonesis the first book to examine in depth the combined effects on American culture of two major transformations: the migration north…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Kevin Mumford is Associate Professor of History and African American studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Jack Johnson and the Abolition of White Slavery



Interzones 1: Transforming Urban Geography



Interzones 2: Reform and Representation



Leisure and Sexual Racism: In-between Men in the Dance Halls



Interracial Intersections: Homosexuality and Black/White Relations



New Fallen Women: Black/White Prostitution



On Stage: The Social Response to All God's Chillun' Got Wings



Slumming: Appropriating the Margins for Pleasure



Racial Reactions: Prohibiting Miscegenation in the 1920s


Epilogue: Sexual Racisms


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index