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“Race Women” in the “White City”: Race, Space, Gender, and Chicago's Red Summer of 1919

Agbe-Davies, Anna S.·2024·Historical Archaeology
DOI 10.1007/s41636-024-00511-w
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The second decade of the 20th century saw the beginning of the Great Migration of African Americans to cities such as Chicago. The city’s existing African American community expressed concern for the welfare of girls and women coming to a strange, potentially dangerous, new place and worked to ease their transition to life there. This article employs a “documentary archaeology” approach, using texts from the period to understand material conditions experienced by members of “the Race,” especially women, in Chicago ca. 1920. It includes a special emphasis on space, how people moved through it, and how it was used in struggles for domination and equality. A rumored spatial transgression was the spark for Chicago’s “riot” of 1919. During the violence, Black spaces were decimated. The events, including many deaths, were so shocking that a commission was established at the time to study the Great Migration and its consequences for Chicago. That commission’s report is at the center of the archive consulted for the analysis presented here. Reflecting the ideologies of the era, its analyses emphasized race over gender as a determining factor in the life experiences of female members of the Race. I argue that the spatial distribution of racialized risk was different for women than for men, and, furthermore, that the dangers women faced were chronic rather than acute.

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  2. Chicago Commission on Race Relations 1922 The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
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Authors
Agbe-Davies, A. S.
Venue
Historical Archaeology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2024-06
Volume
58
Issue
2
Pages
237-254
ISSN
  • 0440-9213 (ISSN-L)
  • 2328-1103
DOI
10.1007/s41636-024-00511-w
OpenAlex
W4401167767
Cited by
2
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1
FWCI
1.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
Historical Archaeology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Keywords
Great Migration, African American women, Black women, race and gender, urban space, Black communities, White City, racial violence

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