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Title: Migrant Visions: Midwestern Migration, the Chicago Renaissance, and the Expression of America in the Early Twentieth Century
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2007
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Abstract: During the period between the Great Fire of 1871 and the economic collapse of 1929, migrants from Indiana and the rural Midwest poured into Chicago. While scholars have paid attention to the economic and environmental linkages between Chicago and its hinterlands, historians have not paid enough attention to the intraregional migration that had wide ranging social and political effects. The effects of this migration were many, ranging from the creation of a local literary movement to changes in Chicago's ethnic communities and identities. Writers from Indiana and the rural Midwest dominated the Chicago Renaissance, making migration and the relationship between rural and urban one of the central themes of this literary movement. Furthermore, the sheer number of rural migrants altered the city's demographics and spatial patterns. Also, ethnic migrants encountered ethnic communities in Chicago that were different from the ones they had known in the countryside, and it seems likely that their migration effected changes in American forms of ethnicity. This project will be the first major study of Midwestern rural-to-urban migration, and it will be the first to investigate how the ethnicity of immigrant groups evolved as a result of internal migration.
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Authors: Brune, Jeffrey A.
Institution: University of Washington
Department: Department of History
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Degree: Doctor in Philosophy
Publisher Location: Seattle, WA
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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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