Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
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As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared a common hope that Harlem would become the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy. ". a glittering living tapestry ."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
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A Slate Magazine Best Book in Nonfiction of the Last 25 Years
The Independent (UK) Best Books of the Year selection
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year selection
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Author Bio: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Essence, Harper’s, Transition, and Vogue. She has received a Lannan Foundation fellowship and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2007. Rhodes-Pitts was born in Texas and educated at Harvard University
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| Available Formats : | CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Runtime: | 8.77 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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