'New world a-coming'
Subtitle: inside black America
By: by Roi Ottley.
Series: Life-in-America prize book[s]
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: What is Harlem? In New World A-Coming: Inside Black America, Roi Ottley presents this city within a city and its one million people, packed sardine-fashion into some two square miles, as something more than "the capital of clowns, cults, and cabarets and the cultural hub of the Negro world." Since its beginnings around 1900 as a little community of "black aristocracy," Harlem's modern history began with the purchase, by Negroes, of thirteen large apartment houses on 135th Street. Now [1943] Harlem, woefully overcrowded, is infinitely subdivided and intermixed with all shades and varieties of color. There are about 2,000 native pure black Africans; 5,000 Moslems; as many more Jewish Negroes, descendants of the "lost Black Tribe" of Abyssinia. Among 125,000 others are French-speaking Haitians, Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans and Cubans, pro British East Indians. In Harlem also live some 2,000 Chinese.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [349]-354.
Illustrated lining-papers in colors.