INDEX
A
Aaron, Daniel, 294
Abrahams, Roger, 122 , 182 -83
Addams, Jane, 20 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 98 , 101
Ade, George, 34
Aldridge, John, 322
Alger, Horatio, 294
Algren, Nelson (See also Chicago: City on the Make; Man with the Golden Arm, The ), 1 , 7 , 10 , 38 , 94 , 233 , 317 , 320 , 327 n8;
and blues, 95 -96;
and Brooks, 97 -102;
and Claude Brown, 313 , 316 , 319 -23, 350 n26;
career of, 19 -20, 92 , 316 -23;
and Chicago literary tradition, 19 -20, 33 -39, 47 -52, 58 , 68 -69, 79 -80, 93 -94, 96 -98, 317 -19;
as Chicago realist, 38 , 48 , 50 -52, 317 -19;
and Chicago School, 50 -51, 330 n29;
as cultural critic, 84 -86;
and Daley, 102 , 107 ;
The Devil's Stocking,320 -23;
and Dybek, 108 -15, 323 ;
as historical figure, 233 ;
and Liebling, 34 -35;
and literature of delinquency, 244 , 249 ;
and Milwaukee Avenue corridor, 19 , 41 -44, 62 -65, 66 ;
as neighborhood novelist, 49 -50, 322 ;
The Neon Wilderness,19 , 63 ;
Never Come Morning,19 , 49 -50, 63 , 76 , 85 , 108 , 244 ;
Notes from a Sea Diary,316 -19;
"Ode to Lower Finksville," 102 -3, 105 ;
and postindustrial transformation, 38 -39, 58 , 91 -94, 107 -8, 112 -15, 201 , 317 , 319 , 320 , 322 ;
reception of, 11 -12, 19 , 34 -35, 58 -62, 316 -19, 322 ;
and Royko, 102 -8, 335 n24;
and Schulberg, 311 , 317 , 318 ;
in Shay, 41 -44, 62 ;
as social critic, 20 -21, 58 -59;
Somebody in Boots,19 , 76 , 85 , 244 , 320 ;
and South Street literature, 123 , 124 , 126 , 128 , 129 , 142 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 167 , 180 , 183 , 184 , 187 -88, 190 -91, 192 , 198 ;
and urban crisis, 316 , 319 ;
A Walk on the Wild Side , 59 , 320 ;
as writer of decline narratives, 20 -26, 28 , 30 , 92 , 114 , 313 , 317 , 350 n26
Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay), 197 -98, 224 , 320 , 348 n19, 349 n20
Allende, Isabel, 112
Anderson, Sherwood, 32 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 51
Asturias, Miguel Angel, 112
authorial persona, 10 .
See also under individual authors
B
Bacon, Edmund, 7 , 136 , 140
Baldwin, James, 144 , 171 , 211 , 253 , 260 , 267 , 293 , 294 , 295 , 297 , 312
Balliett, Whitney, 294
Banfield, Edward, 56 , 300 , 306
Baraka, Amiri. See Leroi Jones
Barnicle, Mike, 106
Beauregard, Robert, 26 , 215 , 216 , 275
Bell, Daniel, 301 , 302
Bellow, Saul, 41 , 93 , 121 , 319 , 334 n7;
Herzog, 319
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 278
Blackboard Jungle, The (film), 243 , 244
Black Like Me,297
Black Metropolis, 46 ;
in New York, 222 , 224 ;
in Philadelphia, 134 -35
Black Muslims, 234 , 257 , 276 , 278 -81, 283 -86, 288 -89, 290 , 292 , 307
Black Panthers, 283 , 307
Blackstone Rangers, 242 , 244
Blake, William, 110 , 114
blues, 95 -96, 111 , 156 , 160 , 222
Boggs, Grace, 210 , 257
Boggs, James, 210 , 257
Bradley, David (See also South Street [Bradley]), 7 , 11 , 121 , 150 , 313 ;
career of, 122 -23, 170 , 172 ;
The Chaneysville Incident,170
Brautigan, Richard: Trout Fishing in America,61
Bremer, Sidney, 45
Breslin, Jimmy, 190 , 234
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 7 , 93 , 94 , 97 -102, 114 , 115 , 233 , 244 , 313 , 327 n8;
AnnieAllen, 97 , 99 , 100 - 102 ;
A Street in Bronzeville,97 , 100
Brown, Claude (See also Manchild in the Promised Land ), 11 , 237 , 271 -72, 273 , 291 , 313 ;
andAlgren, 313 , 316 , 319 -23, 350 n26;
authorial persona of, 10 , 212 , 217 , 269 -70, 286 -87, 291 -92, 305 , 306 -8;
career of, 210 -12, 223 , 273 , 349 n20;
and Carter, 320 -21;
and Chicago neighborhood novelists, 299 , 323 ;
Children of Ham,273 ;
and Dissent,223 , 300 -308;
and leftist intellectuals, 299 -308;
"Manchild in Harlem," 349 n20, 351 n20;
and Miller, 205 , 210 -13, 224 , 277 , 288 , 289 , 293 , 294 -96, 299 , 304 -306, 307 , 308 -10;
in New York Herald-Tribune,236 , 297 -99;
as tour guide, 296 -300, 305 ;
and urban crisis, 12 -13, 209 -13, 217 , 270 -72, 277 , 291 -92, 308 ;
as urban intellectual, 7 , 210 , 212 -13, 224 , 270 -72, 302 -3, 306 -8, 315 -16
(See also under Manchild in the Promised Land); and Wright, 1 -2, 323 ;
as writer of decline narratives, 99 , 350 n26, 351 n20
Brown, Denise Scott, 137 , 139 , 151 , 314
Brown, H. Rap, 210
Brown, Wenzell, 243
Buck, Pearl, 61
Burgess, Ernest, 51
C
Caen, Herb, 190
Caldwell, Erskine, 61
Capote, Truman, 143 , 144
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture), 210 ;
Black Power216 , 251
Carpentier, Alejio, 112
Carson, Sonny, 210 , 283
Carter, Rubin "Hurricane": The Sixteenth Round,320 -21, 323
Cather, Willa, 3 , 34 , 49 , 51
Catholicism, 110 , 112 , 113 , 143 , 144
Cayton, Horace, 98 , 330 n29
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 51 , 98
Chicago: decline narratives about, 19 -39, 104 -5, 112 -15, 301 , 327 n8;
industrial urbanism in, 44 -47;
literary tradition of, 33 -38, 47 -52, 58 -62, 91 -94, 114 -15;
postindustrial transformation of, 40 -44, 52 -58
Chicago realism, 4 , 38 , 44 , 48 -52, 58 -62, 317 -19
Chicago: City on the Make (Algren), 19 ;
Chicago literary tradition in, 35 -38, 94 , 98 , 99 ;
city without artists in, 95 ;
as decline narrative, 20 -25, 30 , 35 -38, 75 , 114 ;
El in, 24 -25, 39 , 89 ;
historical imagination of, 67 , 89 ;
and Man with the Golden Arm,67 , 69 , 70 , 75 , 88 -90;
and Notes from a Sea Diary,319 ;
October City in, 24 -25, 36 , 37 , 323 -24;
on Richard Wright, 96 -97
Chicago School of sociology, 7 -8, 38 , 42 , 50 -51, 60 -61, 106 , 122 , 182 , 225 , 241 -42, 243 , 244 , 325 n2, 330 n29
Chicora, 25 , 61
Churchill, Winston, 233
City Across the River (film), 243
city of fact, 3
city of feeling, 3
Clark, Kenneth, 8 , 210 , 232 , 295 , 308 ;
Dark Ghetto,12 , 210 , 23 , 250 , 270 , 273 -76, 294 , 312
Clarke, Gerald, 143
Clarke, Shirley, 255
Cleaver, Eldridge, 210 , 257 , 270
Cloward, Richard, 8 , 242
Cobb, Randall "Tex," 170
Cohen, Albert, 8 , 242 , 243 , 246 , 258 , 277 , 278
Coltrane, John, 112
Connection, The,255
Conroy, Jack, 149
Cool World, The (film), 234 , 255
Cool World, The (Miller), 9 , 207 -8, 212 , 224 -25, 239 , 240 , 245 -51, 267 -68, 299 , 301 , 303 , 309 ;
reception of, 8 , 252 -55, 264 -68
Cowley, Malcolm, 19
Crane, Stephen, 254
crime. See violence
D
Daley, Richard J., 7 , 41 , 46 , 52 -53, 102 -3, 106 -10, 112 , 251 , 347 n5
Daniels, Guy, 293
Davis, Angela, 210
Day, Dorothy, 301 , 302
de Beauvoir, Simone, 41 , 184
Debs, Eugene, 30
decline, narratives of: about Chicago, 19 -39, 73 -79, 88 -90, 104 -5, 112 -15, 301 , 327 n8;
about New York, 99 , 221 , 301 -2, 350 n26, 351 n20;
about Philadelphia, 130 , 145 -50, 186 -93, 197 -98
de Jongh, James, 217
delinquency, juvenile: in The Cool World,245 -51;
as credential, 225 , 270 -72, 27780, 288 , 306 -8;
literature of, 240 -45;
n Manchild in the Promised Land,277 -80, 288 ;
in South Street (Smith), 158 -59;
and urban crisis, 224 -28, 270 -72
Dell, Floyd, 32 , 34 , 51
De Roo, Edward, 243
Devil's Pocket, 2 , 170 -71, 186
Dexter, Pete, 2 , 7 , 11 , 121 , 123 , 185 -86, 314 ;
career of, 170 -72;
God's Pocket,2 , 120 , 125 -30, 140 , 148 , 169 -70, 171 , 185 -93
Diaz, Eileen, 301 , 302
Dickens, Charles, 58 , 110 , 114
Dilworth, Richardson, 131
Dissent,7 , 206 , 223 , 300 -308
Dos Passos, John, 313
Dostoevsky, Fedor, 51 , 58 , 98 , 158
Douglass, Frederick, 267 , 312
Drake, St. Clair, 98 , 330 n29
Dreiser, Theodore, 20 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 68 , 92 , 96 , 143 , 254 ;
Sister Carrie,13 , 43 , 47 , 51 , 65 , 67 , 69 , 79 -90, 98 , 148
Drew, Bettina, 58 -59
Du Bois, W.E.B., 122
Dunmeyer, Arthur, 271
Dunne, Finley Peter, 34
Dunphy, Jack, 7 , 121 , 144 , 233 , 313 ;
career of, 122 , 142 , 143 , 170 ;
influences on, 125 -26, 143 , 149 , 200 ;
John Fury, 120 , 124 , 126 , 128 , 130 , 140 , 142 , 145 -50, 150 , 166 , 169 , 178 , 181 , 188 , 189 , 194 , 196
Dybek, Stuart, 7 , 94 , 198 , 314 , 323 ;
"Blight," 108 -5, 290
Dylan, Bob, 320
E
Eastland, 25 , 61
Einstein, Albert, 278
Ellison, Harlan, 243
Ellison, Ralph, 7 , 121 , 223 , 224 , 291 , 294 , 297 ;
Invisible Man,126 , 236 -37, 290
Ellson, Hal, 243
Epstein, Jason, 218 -19
Erikson, Erik, 241
F
Fainstein, Norman, 220
Fainstein, Susan, 220
Farrell, James T., 19 , 20 , 29 , 34 , 68 , 84 -85, 244 ;
and Algren, 61 , 92 , 322 ;
and Chicago School, 51 , 330 n29;
and Harlem literature, 254 , 294 ;
as neighborhood novelist, 33 , 49 -50, 149 ;
Sam Holman,322 ;
and South Street literature, 125 -26, 143 , 149
Fiedler, Leslie, 59 , 317
Fisher, James T., 110
Fisher, Philip, 82
Franklin, Benjamin, 294
Freeman, Ira Henry: Out of the Burning,234 , 254 , 294 -95
Frost, Robert, 97
Fuller, Henry Blake, 48
G
Gans, Herbert, 139 , 301
Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 61 -62, 272 -73
Geismar, Maxwell, 59
ghetto, second, 57 , 205 -6;
in Chicago, 57 ;
cultural importance of, 205 -17, 221 -24;
in New York, 219 -22;
in Philadelphia, 135 , 151 -52
Goodman, Paul, 241 , 293 , 301 , 302 , 304 -5, 307
Goodman, Percival, 302
Gorki, Maxim, 58
Gottehrer, Barry, 232 , 234 , 236
Grass, Giinter, 211
Grays Ferry, 120 , 144 , 153 , 154 , 158 , 159 , 165 , 166 , 167 , 173 , 175 , 194 , 199 , 337 n6
Greenwich Village, 206 , 267 , 270 , 279 , 281 , 289 -9, 301 -2, 303 , 310
Guy, Buddy, 95
H
Hackett, Francis, 51
Halper, Albert, 327 n8
Hamilton, Charles, 216 ;
Black Power,216 , 251
Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun,99
Harlem:
decline narratives about, 99 , 221 , 350 n26, 351 n20;
as exemplary second ghetto, 206 , 213 , 217 , 220 -24, 231 ;
literature of, 212 , 222 -23, 309 ;
urban intellectuals' credentials and, 222 -23, 252 -55, 261 -68, 286 -92, 293 -310.
See also under Manchild in the Promised Land
Harlem Renaissance, 155 , 222
Harrington, Michael, 301
Harris, Joel Chandler, 209 , 259 -60, 263 , 264 -65, 267 , 268
Haussmann, Baron, 12
Hearst, William Randolph, 36
Hecht, Ben, 34
Hemingway, Ernest, 19 , 61 , 266 , 316 -19
Hentoff, Nat, 293 , 301 , 304 , 305
Herrick, Robert, 34 , 48 , 49
High School Confidential (film), 243
Himes, Chester, 144 , 152 , 153
Hogarth, William, 298
Holiday (magazine), 27 , 28 , 97 , 99 , 327 n8
Holiday, Billie, 2 , 198
Howe, Irving, 293 , 300 , 301 , 302 , 350 n26
Howling Wolf, 95
Hughes, Langston, 211 , 294
Hugo, Victor, 58
Hutchins, Robert, 36 , 327 n8
I
inner city, 325 n2
Insull, Samuel, 30 , 36
J
Jackson, George, 210 , 270
Jackson, Shoeless Joe, 20 , 30
Jacobs, Jane, 7 , 139 , 227 -28, 232 , 246 -47, 249 , 314
James, Rev. William, 282
Johnson, Lyndon B., 229 , 300 , 315
Jones, Douglas, 349 n20
Jones, James, 61 , 265
Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), 210 , 211 , 294
K
Kafka, Franz, 158
Karenga, Ron, 210
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 300 , 315
Kazin, Alfred, 59 , 302 , 334 n7
Kefauver, Estes, 240 , 243
Kennedy, John F., 211 , 229
Kennedy, Robert, 229 , 272
Kerner Commission, 216 , 229 , 231 , 258 , 266
Killens, John O., 265 -68, 295
King, Martin Luther, 229 , 272
Knickerbocker, Conrad, 59
Kuprin, Alexander, 98
L
Lait, Jack (Chicago Confidential ), 27 -35, 37 , 38 , 43 , 78 , 87
Lester, Julius, 210
Liebling, A. J., 7 , 71 , 349 n20;
Chicago: The Second City,27 -30, 32 -35, 55 , 74
Lindner, Robert, 245
Lindsay, John, 232
Lindsay, Vachel, 34
Linney, Romulus, 294
Lombino, Sal (Evan Hunter), 244
London, Jack, 313
Lovett, Robert Morss, 36
M
Macdonald, Dwight, 317 -18
magical realism, 109 , 112 , 198
Magic Sam, 95
Mailer, Norman, 211 , 265 , 293 , 300 , 301 , 302
Malcolm X, 210 , 224 , 225 , 229 , 233 -34, 235 , 270 , 283 , 285 ;
Autobiography,12 , 209 -10, 270 , 312
Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 19 -20, 66 , 69 -74;
and Chicago: City on the Make,69 , 70 , 75 , 88 -90;
in Chicago literary tradition, 69 , 80 ;
city without artists in, 95 ;
as decline narrative, 12 , 20 -22, 25 , 38 , 58 , 69 -79, 90 , 112 -15;
and The Devil' s Stocking,321 , 322 ;
El in, 21 , 22 , 39 , 71 , 74 -75, 76 , 78 , 79 , 84 , 87 , 88 , 89 ;
as extreme novel, 9 , 69 , 90 ;
family narrative in, 76 -77;
figures of urban intellectual in, 10 , 25 , 73 -74, 79 , 90 ;
ghetto in, 69 , 78 , 79 , 81 , 87 , 88 , 96 ;
music in, 95 -96;
and Notes from a Sea Diary,319 ;
October City in, 21 , 68 , 70 , 86 , 88 ;
and postindustrial transformation, 22 , 67 -69, 80 , 90 ;
restricted range of, 67 , 75 ;
and Sister Carrie,69 , 79 -90;
urban village in, 22 , 67 , 71 , 74 -79, 84
Manchild in the Promised Land (Claude Brown), 2 , 9 , 269 ;
Black Muslims in, 276 , 278 -81, 283 -86;
blueprint of ghetto literature in, 296 , 308 -10, 312 -13;
cover of, 223 -24;
as "dated," 308 ;
delinquency in, 211 , 224 -25, 270 -71, 276 , 277 -79, 282 , 290 , 291 ;
and films, 309 -10;
first-person narration in, 269 -70, 273 , 274 ;
Harlem in, 212 , 286 -91;
making of an urban intellectual in, 271 , 276 , 279 -81, 282 -86, 288 , 291 -92, 296 , 300 (see also under Brown, Claude);
mapping of New York in, 271 , 286 -291, 296 , 305 ;
narrative structure of, 210 , 269 -71, 276 -86, 296 , 300 , 305 , 307 ;
reception of, 11 -12, 205 , 210 -11, 270 , 275 , 293 -310, 315 -16;
riots in, 285 , 286 -87, 291 -92
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, 12
Masters, Edgar Lee, 32 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 51
McCormick, Robert, 29 , 36 , 37 , 327 n8
McInerney, Jay: Bright Lights, Big City,309
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane, 2 , 7 , 121 , 123 , 150 , 313 ;
career of, 171 -72;
Tumbling, 120 , 125 , 126 , 128 , 139 , 140 , 169 -70, 173 , 193 -200
McMillan, Terry: Waiting to Exhale,2
Melville, Herman, 24 , 313
Mencken, H. L., 48 -49
Meyerson, Martin, 56 , 140
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 98
Miller, Warren (See also Cool World, The; Siege of Harlem, The ), 11 , 216 , 223 , 236 , 311 , 313 ;
authorial persona of, 10 , 212 -13, 238 -39, 252 -55, 261 -63, 299 , 308 , 309 ;
and Claude Brown, 205 , 210 -13, 224 , 277 ,
288 , 289 , 293 , 294 -96, 299 , 304 -6, 307 , 308 -10;
career and works of, 206 -7;
as "dated," 12 , 308 ;
and Freeman, 234 , 294 -95;
and postindustrial transformation, 208 , 212 -13, 238 , 240 , 255 , 308 -10;
The Sleep of Reason,207 , 308 ;
and urban crisis, 207 -9, 212 -13, 217 , 238 -40, 250 -51, 255 , 256 -58, 268 , 294 , 308 ;
as urban intellectual, 7 , 206 , 208 -9, 224 , 238 -40, 252 -55, 263 -68, 307
Milwaukee Avenue corridor, 41 -42, 44 , 62 -65, 66 , 94 , 103 , 322 ;
in Algren's works, 21 -22, 49 , 50 , 68 , 70 , 68 , 70 , 74 , 80 , 87 , 38 -9
Mitchell, Robert, 138
Mollenkopf, John, 52 , 134 , 151 , 217 -18
Monroe, Harriet, 32 , 34 , 51 , 98
Moore, Archie, 280 , 282 , 348 n19
Morrison, Toni, 171
Mortimer, Lee. See Lait, Jack
Moses, Robert, 218 , 228
Motley, Willard, 152
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 8 , 183 , 199 , 221 , 271 , 309
Muddy Waters, 95
Murray, Albert, 182 , 222 , 266 -68, 294
Murrow, Edward R., 245
N
Naylor, Gloria, 171
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. See Kerner Commission
Near Northwest Side. See Milwaukee Avenue corridor
neighborhood, 123 -24
neighborhood novel, 49 -50, 123 -26
New Journalism, 91 , 190 , 192 , 297 , 321
Newsweek, 7 , 206 -7, 211 , 230 , 275 , 286 -87, 294 , 314 -17, 319
New York City: decline narratives about, 301 - 2 ;
dominance of urban conversation by, 222 -23;
postindustrial transformation of, 217 -21;
and urban crisis, 231 -36
"New York City in Crisis," 231 -37, 297
New York Herald-Tribune,231 -37, 297 -99
Nichols, Robert, 302
Nkrumah, Kwame, 144 , 250
Norris, Frank, 34 , 48 , 49 , 254 , 313
Novak, Michael, 106
O
Ohlin, Lloyd, 8 , 242
P
Paley, Frank, 244
Papanek, Ernst, 223 , 279 , 281 , 300 , 305 -6
Park, Robert, 7 -8, 38 , 51 , 325 n2.
See also Chicago School of sociology
Patterson, Floyd, 280
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 48
Pei, I.M., 136 , 178 -79, 186
Pepys, Samuel, 294
Petry, Anne, 121 ;
The Street,126 , 157 , 164
Philadelphia: decline narratives about, 130 , 145 -49, 186 -93, 197 -98;
neighborhoods in, 119 -20;
postindustrial transformation of, 130 -41.
See also South Street
Pilgrim's Progress,294
Pilsen/Little Village, 108 , 109
Podhoretz, Norman, 59 , 272 , 293 , 317
postindustrial transformation: of Chicago, 40 -44, 52 -58;
defined, 3 -6, 214 -17, 325 n2;
literature of, 7 -8, 12 , 313 -14;
of New York, 217 -21;
of Philadelphia, 130 -41
Powell, Adam Clayton, 304
Prescott, Orville, 59
Pritchett, V. S., 261
progrowth coalition, 41 , 52 -58, 132 -34, 151 , 165 -66, 218 , 227 -28
R
Rebel without a Cause (film), 243 .
See also Lindner, Robert
redevelopment: defined, 326 n3;
of literature, 13 -14
Ribicoff, Abraham, 271 -72, 315 , 347 n5
Rizzo, Frank, 251
Robinson, Jackie, 2 , 192 , 198 , 278
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 278 , 280
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 278 , 282
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 233
Rotella, Sebastian, 336 n24
Royko, Mike, 7 , 11 , 94 , 102 -8, 113 , 114 , 115 , 190 , 313 -14;
Boss,46 -47, 75 , 103 -7, 335 n24, 347 n5
Rush, Otis, 95
Rust Belt, 14 , 28 , 54
S
Salinger, J. D. (The Catcher in the Rye ), 246 , 254 , 265 , 309
Salisbury, Harrison, 7 , 226 , 241 , 243
Sanchez, Sonia, 210
Sandburg, Carl, 20 , 27 , 28 , 32 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 68 , 88 , 89 , 92 , 93 , 97 , 113 , 327 n8;
"Chicago," 13 , 27 , 28 , 33 , 38 , 60 , 75 -76, 104 -5
Sapphire: Push,13 , 309
Saroyan, William, 61
Schaap, Dick, 294
Scheingold, Stuart, 228 -29
Schroth, Raymond, 296 -97, 299
Schulberg, Budd, 311 -13, 316 , 317 , 318 , 322 , 350 n1;
From theAshes , 311 -13;
The Harder They Fall , 311 ;
Waterfront/On the Waterfront , 113 , 311
Schwartz, Alex, 220
Schweitzer, Albert, 278
Shay, Arthur: Nelson Algren's Chicago,40 -44, 52 , 55 , 56 , 62 , 64 , 92 , 351 n1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: "To a Skylark," 110 , 114
Shulman, Irving:TheAmboy Dukes,243 , 245 , 246
Siege of Harlem, The (Miller), 9 , 207 , 208 -9, 212 , 255 -63, 268 , 274 , 299 , 306 , 348 n19;
reception of, 263 -68
Sinclair, Upton, 34 , 49 , 313 ;
The Jungle, 51 , 80 , 87
Slochower, Herbert, 301
Smith, William Gardner (See also South Street ), 7 , 121 , 150 , 153 , 200 , 233 , 244 , 250 , 307 , 313 , 314 ;
career of, 122 , 123 , 143 -44, 170 ;
Return to Black America,144 , 158 -59, 167 , 244
Society Hill skyscrapers. See Pei, I. M.
Sorel, Edward, 207
South Street:
history of, 119 -20, 134 -40;
literature of, 120 -30, 140 , 142 -45, 167 -72, 200 -201.
See also individual authors and titles
South Street (Bradley), 120 , 125 , 126 -27, 140 , 172 -85, 191 , 194 , 195 , 200 , 242 ;
figures of urban intellectuals in, 128 -29, 173 -74, 177 -85;
and postindustrial transformation, 169 -70, 174 , 176 -77, 178 ;
runaway scene in, 128 , 180 -82
South Street (Smith), 120 , 123 -26, 130 , 140 , 142 , 169 , 172 -75, 185 , 188 , 191 , 194 , 195 , 199 ;
counterargument of, 160 -65;
family narrative in, 126 , 154 -60, 163 , 166 -67;
figures of urban intellectuals in, 128 -29, 154 -60, 162 , 163 , 165 , 166 ;
literary historical moment of, 126 , 150 -53, 165 -68;
neighborhood in, 154 -60;
runaway scene in, 128 , 166 -67, 181
Squires, Gregory, 43 -44, 53 , 54
Stein, Gertrude, 143 , 149
Steinbeck, John, 254 , 294
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin,8 , 245 , 246 , 252 , 259 -60, 267 , 294
Suttles, Gerald, 91 -92, 334 n7
T
Temple University, 122 , 170 , 187
Thomas, Piri, 270 , 307
Thompson, Big Bill, 30
Tunley, Roul, 227
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 29
U
University of Chicago, 31 , 35 , 55 , 327 n8.
See also Chicago School of sociology
University of Pennsylvania, 2 , 122 , 123 , 138 , 170 , 171 , 174 , 177 , 179 , 183 , 186
Updike, John, 265
urban crisis, 6 -7, 11 -13, 214 -17
urban intellectuals: credentials of, 10 -11;
defined, 7 -8;
figures of, in literature, 9 -10
urban renewal.
See redevelopment
urban village:
defined, 21 -22;
in Chicago, 21 -22, 45 -47;
credentials of, 10 -11;
in New York, 218 -20;
in Philadelphia, 135 -37
V
Venturi, Robert, 138 -39
violence: as figure of urban process, 129 -30, 149 -50, 184 -85, 215 -17, 236 -37, 240 ;
and urban crisis, 214 -17, 224 -36, 314 -16
W
Wagner, Robert, 232
Wakefield, Dan, 252 , 265
Walker, T-Bone, 312
Wells, Junior, 95
Wertham, Fredric, 223 , 231 , 243
West Side Story (film), 243
white ethnics, 15 , 343 n15
Whitman, Walt, 98 , 313 , 316
Wiener, Willard, 244
Wilde, Oscar, 267
Wilkens, Roy, 272
Williams, William Carlos, 97
Wills, Garry, 293 , 300
Wilson, James Q., 228 -29
Wirth, Louis, 50 , 330 n29
Wiseman, Frederick, 255
Wolfe, Thomas, 61
Wolfe, Tom, 7 , 190 , 293 , 297 -99, 300 , 302 , 306 -7
Wordsworth, William, 93
Wright, Richard, 20 , 34 , 68 , 244 ;
and Algren, 1 , 19 , 49 -50, 61 , 80 , 84 -85, 92 , 96 -97, 101 ;
and Claude Brown, 1 -2, 323 ;
and Chicago School, 51 , 330 n29;
Eight Men, 1,323 ;
Native Son, 49 , 80 , 157 , 321 ;
as neighborhood novelist, 33 , 49 -50;
and second ghetto, 294 , 313 , 323 ;
and South Street literature, 125 , 126 , 143 , 144 , 152 , 153 , 157 , 171 ;
and urban crisis, 330 n26
Y
Young, Whitney, 272
Yurick, Sol: The Warriors,159
Z
Zola, Emile, 12 , 51
Zukin, Sharon, 215