Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America
Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa
Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown , c2011. - 296 p. : ill., map, photographs ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
A colony of their own -- Into the city of refuge -- Searching for the underground city -- Harlem dream books -- Messages -- Land is the basis of all independence -- Back to Carolina -- We march because.
For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, the author untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that begins at her front door, she introduces us to a wide variety of characters, past and present. At the heart of their stories, and her own, is the hope carried over many generations, hope that Harlem would be the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy.
9780316017237
2010026163
African americans
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)----History
New York (N.Y.)
F128.68.H3 / R48 2011
974.71 RHO
Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown , c2011. - 296 p. : ill., map, photographs ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
A colony of their own -- Into the city of refuge -- Searching for the underground city -- Harlem dream books -- Messages -- Land is the basis of all independence -- Back to Carolina -- We march because.
For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, the author untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that begins at her front door, she introduces us to a wide variety of characters, past and present. At the heart of their stories, and her own, is the hope carried over many generations, hope that Harlem would be the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy.
9780316017237
2010026163
African americans
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)----History
New York (N.Y.)
F128.68.H3 / R48 2011
974.71 RHO
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