All the World is Here!

The Black Presence at White City

By: Christopher Robert Reed

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Paperback | 1 February 2002

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"This entrancing book looks at the clash of class and caste within the black community] . . . . An important reexamination of African American history."
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The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here " examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead, they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America's World's Fair snub.

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"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community] ... An important reexamination of African American history." - Choice

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xxi
Around the Nation
Expectations	p. 3
Participation and Protest	p. 21
Race, Class, and Gender	p. 37
In Host City Chicago
The Domain of Work	p. 57
The Social Order	p. 80
At the Fair
"They Met at the Fair": Linkages	p. 101
The Scope of Involvement	p. 121
"All the World Is Here!"
Continental Africa at the Fair: Dahomey Village	p. 143
On the Fairgrounds: The Haytian Pavilion	p. 172
Diasporan and Continental Africa Meet: The Congress on Africa	p. 179
Frederick Douglass's Speech at Colored American Day	p. 193
Colored People's Blue Book	p. 195
Commentaries from Midway Types	p. 196
"Judge,"	p. 198
Notes	p. 201
Index	p. 227
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