New book: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

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From:     Heather Skinner <skinn077 at umn.edu>

An incisive analysis of racial identity in urban politics.

JIM CROW NOSTALGIA: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville
Michelle R. Boyd
University of Minnesota Press | 208 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-4677-7 | hardcover | $57.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4678-4 | paperback | $18.95

In the Jim Crow era Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on the city's 
South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality. 
Michelle R. Boyd examines how black revitalization leaders reinvented 
the neighborhood's history in ways that, amazingly, sanitized the brutal 
elements of life under Jim Crow and develops a new way to understand the 
political significance of race today.

"Michelle R. Boyd has written a smart and thoughtful study of 
Bronzeville that combines a careful treatment of the past with a 
compelling ethnographic account of contemporary political issues. This 
is a very important work."-John L. Jackson, Jr., author of/ Racial 
Paranoia/ and/ Harlemworld/

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