{"product_id":"9781608466719","title":"A People's History of Chicago","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown variously as “‘the Windy City,”’ “‘the City of Big Shoulders,”’ or “‘Chi-Raq,”’ Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago is the city of Gwendolyn Brooks and Chief Keef, Al Capone and Richard Wright, Lucy Parsons and Nelson Algren, Harold Washington and Studs Terkel. It is the city of Fred Hampton, House Music, and the Haymarket Martyrs. Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s \u003ci\u003eA People’s History of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold. These seventy-seven poems (for the city’s seventy-seven neighborhoods) honor the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city’s workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eKevin Coval\u003c\/b\u003e is the poet\/author\/editor of seven books including \u003ci\u003eThe BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\u003c\/i\u003e and the play, \u003ci\u003eThis Iis Modern Art\u003c\/i\u003e , co-written with Idris Goodwin. Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival and the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors, Coval teaches hip-hop aesthetics at the University of Illinois–-Chicago. The \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e has named him “the voice of the new Chicago“ and the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e calls him “the city’s unofficial poet laureate.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047411269872,"sku":"9781608466719","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608466719_p0.jpg?v=1763832479","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608466719","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}