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Author Heap, Chad C., 1967-

Title Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 / Chad Heap.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F128.5 .H43 2009    DUE 05-23-24  ---
Description xii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-389) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
National Book Committee.
Manners and customs.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.
Slums -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Slums -- Social aspects.
New York (State) -- New York.
History.
Slums.
Slums -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Illinois -- Chicago.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
City and town life.
City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.
Sex customs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Sex customs.
Sex customs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Sexual practices.
ISBN 9780226322438 cloth alkaline paper
0226322432 cloth alkaline paper

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