Black metropolis : a study of Negro life in a northern city / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton ; with an introduction by Richard Wright ; and a new foreword by William Julius Wilson.
Previously published in 2 v.: Rev. and enl. ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1970], in series: Harbinger book.
"University of Chicago Press edition"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-845) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Richard Wright -- Introduction to the 1962 edition / Everett C. Hughes -- Author's preface to the 1962 edition -- Foreword to the 1993 edition / William Julius Wilson -- Introduction : Midwest metropolis -- Flight to freedom -- Land of promise -- The great migration -- Race riot and aftermath -- Between two wars -- Along the color-line -- Crossing the color-line -- The Black ghetto -- The job ceiling -- The shifting line of color -- Democracy and economic necessity : breaking the job ceiling -- Democracy and economic necessity : Black workers and the new unions -- Democracy and political expediency -- Bronzeville -- The power of press and pulpit -- Negro business : myth and fact -- Business under a cloud -- The measure of the man -- Style of living, upper class -- Lower class : sex and family -- The world of the lower class -- The middle-class way of life -- Advancing the race -- Of things to come -- A methodological note / W. Lloyd Warner -- Bronzeville 1961 -- Black metropolis 1961 -- Postscript 1969 -- A list of selected books dealing with the American Negro.