Becoming African Americans : : Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / / Clare Corbould.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Corbould, Clare,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Africa the Motherland --; 2. Discovering a Usable African Past --; 3. Institutionalizing Africa, Past and Present --; 4. The Artistic Capital of Africa --; 5. Haiti, a Stepping- Stone to Africa --; 6. Ethiopia Ahoy! --; Epilogue: What's in a Name? --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674053656; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674053656
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Clare Corbould.

Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.