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| Authors | St Clair Drake, and Horace Cayton |
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| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
Publication date | 1945 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 809 |
| OCLC | 186494767 |
| Followed by | updated and expanded editions |
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, authored by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., is an anthropological and sociological study of the African-American urban experience in the first half of the 20th century.[1] Published in 1945, later expanded editions added some material relating to the 1950s and 1960s.[2] Relying on massive research conducted in Chicago, primarily as part of a Works Progress Administration program, Drake and Cayton produced, according to the Encyclopedia of African American History, a "foundational text in African American history, cultural studies, and urban sociology."[3]
- ^ Black Metropolis. University of Chicago Press. 6 December 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
- ^ Rosa, A. J. (2012). The Roots and Routes of 'Imperium in Imperio': St. Clair Drake, The Formative Years. American Studies 52(1), 49–75. Mid-American Studies Association. Retrieved February 12, 2016, from Project MUSE database.
- ^ Spatz, David A. (2009). "Drake, St. Clair". In Finkelman, Paul (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History (1896–present). Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. p. 90.