Urban green : nature, recreation, and the working class in industrial Chicago /
Colin Fisher.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the Lithuanian worker and the Lake Michigan dunes -- Where Chicagoans found nature: an expedition with Leonard Dubkin, "Urban Ranger" -- Immigrants in "nature's nation" -- Turf: working-class ethnic youth culture and green space -- "The Negro speaks of rivers": African Americans and nature -- The nature of May Day: green space and working-class Chicago -- Conclusion: what we can learn from Chicago's cultures of nature.