Harlem is Nowhere : a Journey to the Mecca of Black America

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

• Title

  Harlem is Nowhere : a Journey to the Mecca of Black America

• Date 2013
• ISBN 9780316017244
• Publisher New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
• Description 296 p.; 9 in
• Language English
• Collections Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection
• 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, 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. (Little, Brown, and Company)

• Tags Bard2017, African American studies, History, New York