The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater

About the Author, Series Page, Production Notes

thomas bauman is a professor of musicology at Northwestern University. He is the author of North German Opera in the Age of Goethe. The New Black Studies Series Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene Pero Gaglo Dagbovie “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films Stephane Dunn Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class Lisa B. Thompson Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People Dawne Y. Curry, Eric D. Duke, and Marshanda A. Smith Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century P. Gabrielle Foreman Black Europe and the African Diaspora Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Trica Danielle Keaton, and Stephen Small Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War Scott Christianson African American History Reconsidered Pero Gaglo Dagbovie Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture Badia Sahar Ahad A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights Cornelius L. Bynum Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic David A. Gerstner The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920—1929 Christopher Robert Reed Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890—1930 Koritha Mitchell Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora Edited by Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O’Toole, & Ben Vinson III Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida Larry Eugene Rivers The Black Chicago Renaissance Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers Edited by Brian Dolinar Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago’s Literary Landscape Elizabeth Schlabach Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner Edited by Mary E. Fredrickson and Delores M. Walters Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity Lindon Barrett, edited by Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride, and John Carlos Rowe Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race Wanda A. Hendricks The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black-Owned Theater Thomas Bauman The University of Illinois Press is a founding member of the Association of American University Presses. ___________________________________ Composed in 10.5/13 Adobe Minion Pro by Lisa Connery at the University of Illinois Press Manufactured by Sheridan Books, Inc. University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820-6903 www.press.uillinois.edu ...