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Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940
- Author
- Heap, Chad C., 1967-
- Title
- Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 / Chad Heap.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Description
- xii, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-389) and index.
- Contents
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- The spatial dynamics of slumming and the emergence of commercial leisure
- Into the slums: the spatial organization, cultural geography, and regulation of a new urban pastime
- Beyond the slums: commercial leisure and the reorganization and policing of urban space
- The changing conceptualization of sexuality and race in the slumming vogues of Chicago and New York
- Adventures in the slums and red-light districts
- The search for Bohemian thrillage
- The Negro vogue: excursions into a "mysterious dark world"
- The pansy and lesbian craze in white and black.
- Subject headings
- Sex customs--New York (State)--New York.
- Kinsey subjects
- Lower class and sex behavior. Urban studies. Sex customs--Illinois--Chicago.
- ISBN
- 9780226322438 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226322432 (cloth : alk. paper)