Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? : Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era /

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The Harlem of the early twentieth century was more than just the stage upon which black intellectuals, poets and novelists, and painters and jazz musicians created the New Negro Renaissance. It was also a community of working people and black institutions who combated the daily and structural manife...

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Main Author: King, Shannon (Associate professor) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Politics and government.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Politics and government.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration > 20e siecle.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The making of the Negro mecca: Harlem and the struggle for community rights
  • Not to save the union but to free the slaves: Black labor activism and community politics during the new Negro era
  • Colored people have few places to which they can move: tenants, landlords, and community mobilization
  • Maintaining a high class of respectability in Negro neighborhoods: contestation and congregation in Harlem's geography of vice and leisure during the Prohibition Era
  • Demand the dismissal of policemen who abuse the privileges of their uniform: racial violence, police brutality, and self-protection
  • Conclusion.

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