All the World Is Here: The Black Presence at White City - Brossura

Reed, Christopher Robert

 
9780253215352: All the World Is Here: The Black Presence at White City
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ISBN 10: 0253215358 ISBN 13: 9780253215352
Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2002

Sinossi

"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community].... An important reexamination of African American history."
—Choice

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here!" examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead, they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America’s World’s Fair snub.

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The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here!" examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead, they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America's World's Fair snub.

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Editore
Indiana Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2002
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0253215358
ISBN 13 
9780253215352
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
264
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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