Politics

The Salvation of La Purisima

Catalog Number: 
Book, Spooner
Date: 
2016
Language: 
English
Notes: 
From personal letter from author, who donated the copy: "The Salvation of La Purisima addresses the struggles of undocumented Mexican workers."
Format: 
Publisher: 
Contributors: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
9781519675248
Item Donor: 
Todd (T. M.) Spooner

Boob Jubilee The Cultural Politics of the New Economy

The Plan of Chicago Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Location

Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Smith
Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
Story of the Daniel Burnham plan for Chicago
Language: 
English
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
9780226764719

Cultural Democracy - The Arts Community & the Public Purpose

Catalog Number: 
Book, Bau Graves
Date: 
2005
Abstract: 
From back cover: How America shortchanges art and communities and what can be done about it"
Language: 
English
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
9780252072086

Unspeakable Acts Ordinary People - The Dynamics of Torture

Catalog Number: 
Book, Conroy
Date: 
2000
Abstract: 
From back cover: "John Conroy sits down with torturers from several nations and comes to understand their motivations."
Language: 
English
Format: 
Contributors: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0520230396

Black Bolshevik - Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist

Catalog Number: 
Book, Haywood
Date: 
1978
Edition: 
Volume: 
Issue: 
Abstract: 
Autobiography of an african american communist.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Format: 
Publisher: 
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ISSN/ISBN: 
0930720520
Website: 

NOMMO A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago (1967-1987)

Location

Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Parks
Date: 
1987
Abstract: 
Collection of prose, poetry, and other from the OBAC collective in Chicago. From the back cover 'A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago contains early and new poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by over 50 past or current OBAC members.'
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Contributors continued: Sandra Royster, Jeanne Towns, Don Ryan, Detmer Timberlake, Pamela Cash-Menzies, Mari Evans, Kalamu ya Salaam, Addison Gayle, Houston A. Baker Jr., Eugenia Collier, Richard A. Long
Format: 
Publisher: 

Anatomy of Racism

Black Chicago - The Making of a Negro Ghetto 1890-1920

Location

Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Spear
Date: 
1967
Edition: 
3rd
Abstract: 
Using the South Side of Chicago as a microcosm, Spear analyzes the creation and circumstances that caused the 'Negro' 'ghetto' to form the way that it did. From back cover 'Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid pattern of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination'.
Language: 
English
Format: 
Item Donor: 
W. Z. Lucas

The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle Club

Location

858 N. State Street ,Phone Number - Delaware 0669, Thru Hole In Wall at 858 N. State St., down Tooker Alley to Green Lite over Orange Door
60610 Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Rosemont
Date: 
2013
Edition: 
Volume: 
Issue: 
Abstract: 
History of the Dil Pickle Club (1920s) as told in a series of essays by (mostly) former members
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
9780882863696
Website: 

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