Landscapes of Hope : : Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago / / Brian McCammack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: McCammack, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 24 halftones, 7 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Kinship with the Soil --; Part I. The Migration Years, 1915–1929 --; 1. “Booker T.” Washington Park and Chicago’s Racial Landscapes --; 2. Black Chicagoans in Unexpected Places --; Part II. The Depression Years, 1930–1940 --; 3. Playgrounds and Protest Grounds --; 4. Back to Nature in Hard Times --; 5. Building Men and Building Trees --; Epilogue: A Century of Migration to That Great Iron City --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982604; 9783110543315; 9783110638516
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982604
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brian McCammack.

In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Brian McCammack travels to Chicago’s parks and beaches as well as farms and forests of the rural Midwest, where African Americans retreated to relax and reconnect with southern identities and lifestyles they had left behind.