Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 / Chad Heap.
Material type: TextSeries: Historical studies of urban AmericaPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: xii, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780226322438 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226322432 (cloth : alk. paper)
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs
- Slums -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Slums -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
- Sex customs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Sex customs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- 305.8009773/11 22
- F128.5 .H43 2009
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | F 128.5 HEA 2009 | 1 | Available | 02263224381 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-389) and index.
The spatial dynamics of slumming and the emergence of commercial leisure -- Into the slums: the spatial organization, cultural geography, and regulation of a new urban pastime -- Beyond the slums: commercial leisure and the reorganization and policing of urban space -- The changing conceptualization of sexuality and race in the slumming vogues of Chicago and New York -- Adventures in the slums and red-light districts -- The search for Bohemian thrillage -- The Negro vogue: excursions into a "mysterious dark world" -- The pansy and lesbian craze in white and black.
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