{"product_id":"slumming-sexual-and-racial-encounters-in-american-nightlife-1885-1940-paperback","title":"Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChad Heap\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating history, Chad Heap reveals that the reality of slumming was far more widespread--and important--than nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a \"fashionable dissipation\" centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, \u003ci\u003eSlumming\u003c\/i\u003e charts the development of this popular pastime, demonstrating how its moralizing origins were soon outstripped by the artistic, racial, and sexual adventuring that typified Jazz-Age America. And while Heap doesn't ignore the role of exploitation and voyeurism in slumming--or the resistance it often provoked--he argues that the relatively uninhibited mingling it promoted across bounds of race and class helped to dramatically recast the racial and sexual landscape of burgeoning U.S. cities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written. . . . Vivid and astonishingly detailed.\"--George Chauncey, author of \u003ci\u003eGay New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChad Heap\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of American studies at the George Washington University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45729493516485,"sku":"9780226322445","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/newOrNB4z49780226322445.webp?v=1781212422","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/slumming-sexual-and-racial-encounters-in-american-nightlife-1885-1940-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}