Chi boy : Native sons and Chicago reckonings /

Norris, Keenan,

Chi boy : Native sons and Chicago reckonings / Keenan Norris. - viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm. - Machete . - Machete. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Origin stories -- Exodus archive: first- and second-wave migration, WWI-1960s -- Death in Paris: 1960 -- On the shore: 1961-2016 -- Chi-Raq does not exist: 2017, 1968, 1970, 2021 -- Epilogue: Truth and reconciliation.

"Personal essays about the author's family woven together with cultural history and critique about the Great Migration to Chicago, Northern segregation, the life and work of Richard Wright and other Black Chicago intellectuals, Black masculinity, and the specter of violence in Chicago"--

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Norris, Keenan--Family.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 --Criticism and interpretation.


African Americans--Migrations--History.
Violence--Illinois--Chicago.


Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life.

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