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A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Little Brown and Company
February 2011
On Sale: January 26, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 031601723X
EAN: 9780316017237
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of
black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and
political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history,
as gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles
the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic
Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that
begins at her front door, Rhodes-Pitts introduces us to a
wide variety of characters, past and present. At the heart
of their stories, and her own, is the hope carried over many
generations, hope that Harlem would be the ground from which
blacks fully entered America's democracy. Rhodes-Pitts is a brilliant new voice who, like other
significant chroniclers of places-Joan Didion on California,
or Jamaica Kincaid on Antigua-captures the very essence of
her subject.
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