Book (b)

This guidebook, written by Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell, features a number of Black women who contributed to the development of Chicago from the mid-19th century to today. It tells a story of Black women activists, educators and artists who lived and worked on Chicago’s South Side by taking readers on a tour of relevant landmarks and locations.

Chicago's Growth in sixty years from frontier outpost to the second largest city in America embodied for writers and artists the sudden and even violent transition to what we call the modern period. Among the themes in Smith's study are the place of art int he new city, the representation of women trying to succeed on the city's "male" terms, and the conception of the businessman as artist. *

The word that had many voices -- Storm King Mountain -- Father -- The alchemist's stone -- If beggar boys were shamans -- A mountain in a suitcase -- Symmetries -- A matter of degrees -- Twenty years of empty spaces -- Unforgiving -- At christmas just before midnight -- In age -- Snowball, Gregory Corso and a village stoop -- Translucence -- Dead people -- Being born of bone -- Fossil -- Full moon above main street -- Ka-Ching! -- STROKE! -- Leaves and spit -- Ramses visits the cradle of democracy -- Masks and carved animals -- Wallpaper memories -- Rivers in the ocean -- An arborist's taxonomy -- The intensity of light -- The hand-off -- Proud ilium -- Nationbuilding -- The gates are set to close -- Little cowboys geniuses -- Fine bone China -- Tthe little things -- Not time -- With no return addresses -- Helios -- What light? -- Nanotechnology man -- V Roadhouse restaurant & girll -- Where colors end -- Asking forgiveness -- Obesrving the constellations in grand central -- Along the back roads from Illinois to Pennsylvania -- After sundown at Rye Beach -- Where the farthest galaxies roar into nothingness -- Best not to know a town too well -- In the beginning.