Slumming : Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 - Chad Heap

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Slumming

Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

By: Chad Heap

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Paperback | 30 October 2010 | Edition Number 1

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In this fascinating history, Chad Heap reveals that the reality of slumming was far more widespread--and important--than nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a "fashionable dissipation" centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, "Slumming" charts the development of this popular pastime, demonstrating how its moralizing origins were soon outstripped by the artistic, racial, and sexual adventuring that typified Jazz-Age America. And while Heap doesn't ignore the role of exploitation and voyeurism in slumming--or the resistance it often provoked--he argues that the relatively uninhibited mingling it promoted across bounds of race and class helped to dramatically recast the racial and sexual landscape of burgeoning U.S. cities. "Exhaustively researched and beautifully written. . . . Vivid and astonishingly detailed."--George Chauncey, author of "Gay New York" " ""This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity."--"American Historical Review"

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"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written.... Vivid and astonishingly detailed." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York "This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity." - American Historical Review "An enthralling history.... Assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material." - New Yorker"

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Spatial Dynamics of Slumming and the Emergence of Commercial Leisure	p. 15
Into the Slums: The Spatial Organization, Cultural Geography, and Regulation of a New Urban Pastime	p. 17
Beyond the Slums: Commercial Leisure and the Reorganization and Policing of Urban Space	p. 55
The Changing Conceptualization of Sexuality and Race in the Slumming Vogues of Chicago and New York	p. 99
Adventures in the Slums and Red-Light Districts	p. 101
The Search for Bohemian Thrillage	p. 154
The Negro Vogue: Excursions into a "Mysterious Dark World"	p. 189
The Pansy and Lesbian Craze in White and Black	p. 231
Epilogue	p. 277
Notes	p. 287
List of Abbreviations in Notes	p. 391
Index	p. 395
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