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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment

May 25, 2023May 23, 2023 Ray Dinsmore black press, book review, Built Environment, Chicago, Chicago Defender, Ebony Magazine

In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the

Black Chicagoans, The Great Migration, and Nature

November 3, 2022November 6, 2022 Jason Martin Chicago, class, Jim Crow, Nature, Park

In Landscapes of Hope, author Brian McCammack brings together topics such as recreation, celebration, resistance, class conflict, protest, and activism.

The Bud Billiken Parade

June 16, 2022June 15, 2022 E. James West Bud Billiken Parade, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DOCUMERICA, Parade

Over the last two installments of my series on race and DOCUMERICA, we’ve explored the contrasting visions of Black Chicago

Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts

January 19, 2022January 18, 2022 E. James West Black Metropolis, Chicago, documumerica, photography, urban

This is the second part of our series about Race and DOCUMERICA. For many DOCUMERICA photographers, images of Black life

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