Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

by Sandhya Shukla

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a representative site of gentrification. How do we understand the power of a place with so many claims and identifications? Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231208464
• ISBN13: 9780231208468
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"