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Harlem : the four hundred year history from Dutch village to capital of Black America

Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in its history. In this work the...

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Main Author: Gill, Jonathan, Professor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Online Access:Publisher description
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Table of Contents:
  • Unrighteous beginnings: from Muscoota to Nieuw Haarlem, 1609-1664
  • Strange bedfellows: British Harlem, 1664-1781
  • Sweet asylum: founding an American Harlem, 1781-1811
  • The future is uptown, 1811-1863
  • The flash age, 1863-1898
  • Nostra Harlem, undzere Harlem: the age of immigration
  • "To race with the world": the new Negro and the Harlem Renaissance
  • "The kingdom of culture": Harlem's Renaissance comes of age
  • "Moon over Harlem": the Great Depression uptown, 1929-1943
  • "Tempus fugue-it": Harlem in the Civil Rights Era, 1943-1965
  • Harlem nightmare, 1965-1990
  • Old and new dreams: reviving the Renaissance.

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