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Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism (U of Illinois Press, 2023. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. "Emergent ghettos: Black neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880–1940." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (2015 ...
The exhibition opened in Chicago in 2018, traveling to New York City and Los Angeles. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] White "was a humanist, drawn to the physical body and more literal representations of the lives of African-Americans," according to Lauren Warnecke for the Chicago Tribune . [ 44 ]
The entertainment industry is in the midst of a cultural transformation that is driving a new renaissance for African-American artists, Lena Waithe and others observed Friday night during a panel ...
A disco record and its rollicking world tour is an unprecedented celebration of queer Black life by the biggest pop star in America, critics and scholars tell Josh Marcus
Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), [1] was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just ...
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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies). University of California Press, August 1, 2006. ISBN 0520249909, 9780520249905. Hunt, Darnell and Ana-Christina Ramón (editors). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. NYU Press, April 19, 2010.