Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African
American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side
Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the
Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the
1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with
migrants, Bronzeville was the community that provided inspiration,
training, and work for an entire generation of diversely talented
African American authors and artists who came of age during the
years between the two world wars.In this significant recovery
project, Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach investigates the
institutions and streetscapes of Black Chicago that fueled an
entire literary and artistic movement. She argues that African
American authors and artists--such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard
Wright, Langston Hughes, painter Archibald Motley, and many
others--viewed and presented black reality from a specific
geographic vantage point: the view along the streets of
Bronzeville. Schlabach explores how the particular rhythms and
scenes of daily life in Bronzeville locations, such as the State
Street "Stroll" district or the bustling intersection of 47th
Street and South Parkway, figured into the creative works and
experiences of the artists and writers of the Black Chicago
Renaissance. She also covers in detail the South Side Community Art
Center and the South Side Writers' Group, two institutions of art
and literature that engendered a unique aesthetic consciousness and
political ideology for which the Black Chicago Renaissance would
garner much fame. Life in Bronzeville also involved economic
hardship and social injustice, themes that resonated throughout the
flourishing arts scene. Schlabach explores Bronzeville's harsh
living conditions, exemplified in the cramped one-bedroom
kitchenette apartments that housed many of the migrants drawn to
the city's promises of opportunity and freedom. Many struggled with
the precariousness of urban life, and Schlabach shows how the once
vibrant neighborhood eventually succumbed to the pressures of
segregation and economic disparity. Providing a virtual tour South
Side African American urban life at street level, Along the Streets
of Bronzeville charts the complex interplay and intersection of
race, geography, and cultural criticism during the Black Chicago
Renaissance's rise and fall.
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