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

By (author) Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Harlem Is Nowhere brilliantly captures the essence of Harlem at a crucial moment in the neighborhood's history. For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. 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, Rhodes-Pitts 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. Rhodes-Pitts is a brilliant new voice who, like other significant chroniclers of places -- Joan Didion on California, or Jamaica Kincaid on Antigua -- captures the very essence of her subject. ""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

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Publisher | Little, Brown & Company
Published date | 22 Jan 2013
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 208 x 141 x 23mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 277g
ISBN | 978-0-3160-1724-4
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BISAC | social science / ethnic studies / african-american studies


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