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290 INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

The Black Renaissance Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. (Urbana: University of Press, 2012. Pp. vii, 214. Illustrations, notes, index. $80.00.)

In the opening line of her introduc- writes Floyd, “to merge social, politi- tion to The Black Chicago Renaissance, cal, and artistic values in a frontal as- Darlene Clark Hine writes that “be- sault on access to the fruits of white ginning in the 1930’s and lasting into society” (p. 40). the 1950’s, black Chicago experienced Elsewhere in the volume, Eliza- a cultural renaissance that rivaled beth Schlabach explores how Chi- and, some argue, exceeded the cul- cago luminaries Richard Wright and tural outpouring in Harlem” (p. xv). conceived black I am one of those who has argued that. identity forming in the struggle be- My book, Black Writing from Chicago tween the confines of material reality (2006), focuses on various literary and expansive inner consciousness. forms, and the ten essays following David T. Bailey’s essay on Horace Hine’s introduction not only put that Cayton—the best piece I have read writing into more cultural, historical, on Cayton—explains how his con- and social context than I had space flicts over blackness caused him to to do, but also make clear that musi- fade from sight while the book he cians, performers, and visual artists co-wrote, Black Metropolis (1945), were perhaps an even more vital part remains one of the most venerated of that outpouring. pieces of black scholarship of all time. Samuel A. Floyd Jr.’s “The Ne- Hilary Mac Austin’s “The Defender gro Renaissance,” while focused on Brings You the World” expands our , most succinctly captures the understanding of the Chicago De- importance of seeing all artistic pro- fender’s enormous national influence ductions holistically and in context. by following Patrick B. Prescott Jr.’s Many leaders of the Negro Renais- series on world travel, which the sance counseled turning away from Defender published to help expand black arts they deemed “low,” but black global consciousness. Langston Hughes and many of his Readers of this magazine will peers—especially in Chicago, where be delighted to find Indiana’s own Hughes had deep professional roots— William Edouard Scott commanding fought against that distinction. “Let much attention. Widely considered the blare of Negro and the bel- the dean of African American paint- lowing voice of ers of the time, Scott is the fourth penetrate the closed ears of the most referenced single person in colored near-intellectuals,” Hughes the volume, behind only Richard wrote (p. 40). This “was part of the Wright, Charles White, and Horace strategy (conscious or unconscious),” Cayton. As for writers, Indiana was REVIEWS 291

originally home to Metea, Simon diana. It was , who along Pokogon, George Ade, and Theodore with —also from Dreiser, all of whom David Starkey Indiana—formed one of the greatest and I included in Smokestacks and duos in blues history. Skyscrapers (1999), but connections Of course, one cannot possibly of black Indiana and Chicago writers include every important person in a during the Black Chicago Renaissance volume, so ending with my surprise need exploration. at some omissions is not a reflection I found some exclusions strange, on the overall excellence of The Black however. No contributor mentions Chicago Renaissance. Still, as I know , important acutely from those I missed or did both to the Negro Renaissance and not have space for in my own books the Black Arts movement. He also about Chicago, every miss leaves contributed to the Gary American. out many other connections. It was Musically, goes miss- Scrapper Blackwell’s “Kokomo Blues,” ing. Perhaps we associate him more for example, that transformed into with California, but he was part of the Chicago’s anthem—“Sweet Home extraordinary arts legacy of Chicago’s Chicago.” DuSable High School, and, in Chicago during the Renaissance period, was RICHARD R. GUZMAN is Professor of working out his own important re- English at North Central College. sponses to , who is talked He is the editor of Black Writing from about in relation to ’s Chicago: In the World, Not of It? (2006) seminal Chicago recordings. Another and co-editor, with David Starkey, of Cole’s great influences, however, of Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An would also have led us back to In- Anthology of Chicago Writing (1999).

Selling the Amish The Tourism of Nostalgia By Susan L. Trollinger (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 193. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)

Studies of Amish tourism typically shifts the question and instead asks focus on the reasons visitors want to what—aside from Amish people— see Amish people and communities. brings tourists to towns in Amish What, in other words, about Amish country. Trollinger argues that an life and faith draws around nineteen Amish presence—a selling point for million tourists annually? Trollinger many small towns—helps tourists