Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America

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Label

Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America

Title remainder

a journey to the Mecca of Black America

Statement of responsibility

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Creator

• Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa

Subject

• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions
• City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Community life -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

974.7/1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F128.68.H3

LC item number

R48 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography