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Harlem Is Nowhere - A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Narrator Karen Chilton

Publisher: Recorded Books

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Summary

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
Duration: about 9 hours (08:46:36)
Publishing date: 2011-11-25; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2011. Copyright Statment: —