Verlag: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1945
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Octavo; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, tan with cream print on brown banner; Boards in tan cloth, wear to spine caps and corners, spotty stains to front and rear, mild shelfwear; Text block has cracked front hinge, underlining and marginal notation in red pencil; xxxiv, 809 pages. 1359771. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1946
Anbieter: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Printing. xxxiv, 809 pages. This is a landmark study of the socio-anthropological history of life in Chicago's South Side, at the time the second-largest concentration of African-Americans in the United States. The study was done by University of Chicago anthropologist St. Clair Drake and sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr. A lengthy introduction by famed Black writer Richard Wright provides a context for interpreting the study's findings. The bbo is in very good condition: clean and tight, with minimal edgewear and light toning of pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Verlag: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1945
Anbieter: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition of this contemporary look at the lives of Black people in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90). Anthropologist, scholar, and political advisor to several African nations, St. Clair Drake made his career working among the people he studied. While his co-author Horace R. Cayton had connections among the upper crust of Chicago's Black community, Drake was able to form relationships with the "poorer wage-earners" of the city (29), those who "the uppers and middles sometimes visualize as a 'problem' and always an embarrassment" (602). By examining the different strata of society within the Bronzeville neighborhood, Drake and Cayton are able to identify and describe many social issues that still affect Black communities today. Published "at a moment when sociology seemed unaware of the potential for overt racial conflict," BLACK METROPOLIS "anticipated the Black Power rebellions of the 1960s by acknowledging the existence of nationalistic, non-assimilative sentiment informed by race pride [.] and a long-held resentment at white oppression" (Rosa, 51). The popularity of BLACK METROPOLIS has carried it through several editions and reissues. A groundbreaking work, scarce in the original dust jacket. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original red-orange cloth binding. Original price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with various charts and diagrams. xxxiv, 810 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, a few small closed tears; spine with some sunning and 1.5" partially-closed tear with attendant rubbing, a bit of chipping to ends. Binding with small knock to spine. Text with a touch of soil to bottom edge. Tight. Very good in very good dust jacket.
Verlag: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1945
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by co-author Horace R. Cayton, Jr. on the front free endpaper. xxxiv, 809 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gray and yellow stamping to spine. Very Good with light red pencil notation by former owner to paste down and a few underlines throughout text, a hint of wave towards front, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, a few short closed tears, unclipped ($5.00). An uncommon signature on a classic sociological survey of urban African American life, specifically the South Side of Chicago. Cayton was a prominent African American sociologist, the son of a founder of a Black newspaper in Seattle in the 1890s.