| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 306 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-30641-4.)

In November 1945, the first issue of Ebony magazine hit the stands, a cultural project and commercial enterprise that would transform the consciousness of black America. The magazine, published by the Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company, projected an image of African American life that was prosperous and cosmopolitan, and evoked an increasingly cohesive vision of African American identity. Ebony, Adam Green contends, helped transform "notions of race within the collective imagination of blacks at this time" (p. 143). In Selling the Race, Green chronicles the history of several cultural forces—Ebony was the most successful financially—that emerged from Chicago in the postwar period and contributed to an increasingly homogenous black identity and rights-oriented black politics.

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