"Interzones" is an innovative account of how the color line was
drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American
cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New
York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories
and racial inequalities.
Focusing on Chicago's South Side and Levee districts, and
Greenwich Village and Harlem in New York at the height of the
Progressive era, Mumford traces the connections between the Great
Migration, the commercialization of leisure, and the politics of
reform and urban renewal. "Interzones" is the first book to examine
in depth the combined effects on American culture of two major
transformations: the migration north of southern blacks and the
emergence of a new public consumer culture.
Mumford writes an important chapter in Progressive-era history
from the perspectives of its most marginalized and dispossessed
citizens. Recreating the mixed-race underworlds of brothels and
dance halls, and charting the history of a black-white sexual
subculture, Mumford shows how fluid race relations were in these
"interzones." From Jack Johnson and the "white slavery" scare of
the 1910's to the growth of a vital gay subculture and the
phenomenon of white slumming, he explores in provocative detail the
connections between political reforms and public culture, racial
prejudice and sexual taboo, the hardening of the color line and the
geography of modern inner cities.
The complicated links between race and sex, and reform and
reaction, are vividly displayed in Mumford's look at a singular
moment in the settling of American culture and society.
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