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Book Review


The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. By Anne Meis Knupfer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-252-03047-8. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-07293-6.)
The very notion of "renaissance" can be precarious and often elusive, yet one thing has remained fairly consistent: renaissance has been associated with the idea of elevation or even transcendence, whether it refers to the mind above and beyond the body or the "comeback" of a "new" community or commercial district from the chaos of a usually controversial recent urban past. However, Anne Meis Knupfer makes a powerful case for training our directive scope in the other direction. Perhaps when we imagine the notion of renaissance we should move not up and away but descend into the complexities and contradictions of, in this case, community institutions as physical spaces for creativity and consciousness. . . .
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