Race Capital? : : Harlem as Setting and Symbol /

Race Capital? : : Harlem as Setting and Symbol / / ed. by Daniel Matlin, Andrew M. Fearnley.

For close to a century, Harlem has been the iconic black neighborhood widely seen as the heart of African American life and culture, both celebrated as the vanguard of black self-determination and lamented as the face of segregation. But with Harlem's demographic, physical, and commercial lands...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Chronopoulos, Themis,
Corbould, Clare,
Fearnley, Andrew M,
Fearnley, Andrew M.,
Griffin, Farah Jasmine,
Jackson, John L.,
James, Winston,
Löbbermann, Dorothea,
Makalani, Minkah,
Massood, Paula J.,
Matlin, Daniel,
Purnell, Brian,
Wall, Cheryl A.,
White, Shane,
HerausgeberIn:
Fearnley, Andrew M.,
Matlin, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I: MYTHOLOGIES
  • 1. From Prophecy to Preservation: Harlem as Temporal Vector
  • 2. Class, Gender, and Community in Harlem Sketches: Representing Black Urban Modernity in Interwar African American Newspapers
  • 3. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto Discourse
  • 4. What's the Matter with Baby Sister?: Chester Himes's Struggles to Film Harlem
  • PART II: MODELS
  • 5. Harlem's Difference
  • 6. Black Women's Intellectual Labor and the Social Spaces of Black Radical Thought in Harlem
  • 7. Harlem as Culture Capital in 1920s African American Fiction
  • 8. City of Numbers: Rethinking Harlem's Place in Black Business History
  • 9. Harlem, USA: Capital of the Black Freedom Movement
  • 10. Richard Bruce Nugent and the Queer Memory of Harlem
  • PART III: BLACK NO MORE?
  • 11. Race, Class, and Gentrification in Harlem Since 1980
  • 12. When Harlem Was in Vogue Magazine
  • Harlem: An Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Index

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