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Adam Green

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Connection to Illinois: Adam Green works in Chicago.

Biography: Adam Green is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): History; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: apgreen@uchicago.edu
Adam Green on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=adam+green


Selected Titles

Selling the race :
ISBN: 9780226306407 OCLC: 70291957

University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 2007.

Black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. In fact, Adam Green argues, this vibrant period in Windy City life engendered a unique cultural and commercial consciousness, fostering ideas of racial identity that remain influential today.

 

 

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