Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-190) and index.
Contents
"Under the bridge and beyond" : Helen Campbell, Jerry McAuley, and Ernest Poole on the East Side waterfront -- A culture of contradictions : Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, and the transformation of the Bowery -- Marginal men in Black bohemia : Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson in the Tenderloin -- Realism in the ghetto : Jacob Riis, Hutchins Hapgood, and Abraham Cahan on the Lower East Side -- "Nigger heaven" : Carl Van Vechten, Claude Mckay, and the construction of mythic Harlem -- Epilogue : The city turned inside out.