| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Culture, Labor, History
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Culture, labor, history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 manifestations of racial, class, and gender inequality within Harlem and across the city. New Negro activists, such as Hubert Harrison and Frank Crosswaith, challenged local forms of economic and racial inequality. Insurgent stay-at-home black mothers took negligent landlords to court, complaining to ma. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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National Book Committee. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Politics and government. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: King, Shannon (Associate professor). Whose Harlem is this, anyway?. New York : New York University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2015001643 |
| ISBN |
9781479866915 |
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1479866911 |
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9781479811274 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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1479811270 |
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