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Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

By:

Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown , c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 296 p. : ill., map, photographs ; 22 cmISBN:

9780316017237

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

974.71 RHO

LOC classification:

F128.68.H3 R48 2011

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	974.71 RHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		041434

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.

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.

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