Slumming: sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885 - 1940

The indelible public image of slumming is of limousines pullng up in Prohibition era Harlem, full of rich whites looking for great jazz and a good time; but Chad Heap reveals that the reality was far more widespread that this, and takes us from slumming as 'fashionable dissipation' in 1880...

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Main Author: Heap, Chad C. 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago [u.a.] Univ. of Chicago Press 2009
Series:Historical studies of urban America
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Summary:The indelible public image of slumming is of limousines pullng up in Prohibition era Harlem, full of rich whites looking for great jazz and a good time; but Chad Heap reveals that the reality was far more widespread that this, and takes us from slumming as 'fashionable dissipation' in 1880s New York to gay nightclubs in 1930s Chicago.
Item Description:Literaturangaben
Physical Description:XII, 420 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780226322438
0226322432