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A People's History of Chicago

A People's History of Chicago

Coval, Kevin
Bennett, Chancellor

Hardcover

General PoetryRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 1642591033
ISBN13: 9781642591033
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Mar 28 2017
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Known variously as 'the Windy City,' 'the City of Big Shoulders,' or 'Chi-Raq,' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world.

Chicago is the city of Gwendolyn Brooks and Chief Keef, Al Capone and Richard Wright, Lucy Parsons and Nelson Algren, Harold Washington and Studs Terkel. It is the city of Fred Hampton, House Music, and the Haymarket Martyrs. Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval's A People's History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold. These seventy-seven poems (for the city's seventy-seven neighborhoods) honor the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city's workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape.

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