Harlem is nowhere
Subtitle: a journey to the Mecca of Black America
By: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781847084576
Subjects: African Americans; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A colony of their own; title: Into the city of refuge; title: Searching for the underground city; title: Harlem dream books; title: Messages; title: Land is the basis of all independence; title: Back to Carolina; title: We march because.