Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / Brian McCammack.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCammack, Brian, 1981- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
Human geography > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Recreation areas > Illinois > History > 20th century.
Recreation areas > Michigan > History > 20th century.
African Americans.
African Americans > Migrations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Human geography.
Recreation areas.
Illinois.
Illinois > Chicago.
Michigan.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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