Book
Black metropolis: a study of Negro life in a northern city [Vol. 1]
Harcourt, Brace & World • New York • Published In 1970 • Pages: i-xxxix, 1-377, xl-lxx
By: Drake, St. Clair, Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides an exhaustive study of Blacks in Chicago, referred to in the text as 'Midwest Metropolis.' The emergence and growth of the 'Black Belt' as a segregated zone of residence, the political discrimination influence of Blacks in the city's machine-run politics, migration, employment opportunities, and job are among the subjects covered in detail. The role of trade unionism in changing racial attitudes and job prospects is discussed, but the emergence of new ideologies of social and cultural change, such as Black Power, is only briefly discussed in an appendix.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Composition of population
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethnosociology
- Internal migration
- Pressure politics
- Elections
- Social relationships and groups
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor organization
- Political machines
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1941
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
- Includes bibliographical references (v. 2 p. 793-796)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73012271
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans