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- Title
‘The Negro in Chicago’: Harmony in Conflict, 1919–22.
- Authors
Hudson, Cheryl
- Abstract
Calls for reform in the wake of the 1919 Chicago race riot came to centre on the perceived need for greater order and oversight in the relations between the black and white residents of the city. This article examines the city's official response to the racial violence of 1919, which took the form of the Chicago Commission on Race Relations and its 1922 report, The Negro in Chicago. Demand for the interracial commission emanated from both progressive reformers and official political channels but many among Chicago's African American population resisted the undemocratic and segregationist implications of such a deliberating body. I assess the nature of the political ideas animating the commission's membership and the intellectual sustenance provided by its primary researcher, Charles S. Johnson, and his mentor, Robert E. Park. I argue that the report not only institutionalized Jim Crow in 1920s Chicago but by giving official sanction to racial marking, it embedded racial categorizations in the newly emerging conceptions of citizenship in the modern city.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; UNITED States; RACE relations in the United States -- Political aspects; RACE riots; RACE relation policy; SEGREGATION of African Americans; HISTORY of Chicago (Ill.), 1875-; JOHNSON, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956; PARK, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944; HISTORY
- Publication
European Journal of American Culture, 2010, Vol 29, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1466-0407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ejac.29.1.53/1