{"product_id":"slumming-chad-heap-9780226322445","title":"Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Heap\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226322440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226322445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Chad Heap","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913428861183,"sku":"9780226322445","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1a6367d0-4d98-4fd4-922b-bce41614c563.jpg?v=1680620362","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slumming-chad-heap-9780226322445","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}