Or Does It Explode?: Black Harlem in the Great Depression

by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

Book Overview

The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem it was made worse by past and present discrimination. Or Does It Explode? examines Black Harlem from the 1920s through the Depression and New Deal to the outbreak of World War II. It describes the changing economic and social lives of Harlemites, and the complex responses of a resilient community to racism and poverty. Greenberg demonstrates that far from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195058682
• ISBN13: 9780195058680
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"