Harlem Is Nowhere A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

Name: Harlem Is Nowhere A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
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ISBN: 9780316017244

ISBN-10: 0316017248

ISBN-13: 9780316017244

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

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"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject....Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that--all of which this book displays in abundance." (Zadie Smith,Harper's)A finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year.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, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 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,…

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List price: $22.99
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Matthew S. Witkovskyis chair and Ellen and Richard Sandor Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the editor ofAvant-Garde Art in Everyday Life(Yale).Sharifa Rhodes-Pittsis the author ofHarlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America.




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…


Acknowledgments


Credits


Notes


Index


Reading Group Guide