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Chad Heap

Slumming

Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

432 pages, 19 halftones, 7 maps  6 x 9  © 2009
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

Cloth $35.00

ISBN: 9780226322438   Published May 2009

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Part I
The Spatial Dynamics of Slumming and the Emergence of Commercial Leisure

Chapter 1
Into the Slums
The Spatial Organization, Cultural Geography and Regulation of a New Urban Pastime 

Chapter 2
Beyond the Slums
Commercial Leisure and the Reorganization and Policing of Urban Space

Part II
The Changing Conceptualization of Sexuality and Race in the Slumming Vogues of Chicago and New York

Chapter 3
Adventures in the Slums and Red-Light Districts

Chapter 4
The Search for Bohemian “Thrillage”

Chapter 5
The Negro Vogue
Excursions into a “Mysterious Dark World”

Chapter 6
The Pansy and Lesbian Craze in White and Black

Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Subjects



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