"Or does it explode?" : Black Harlem in the Great Depression

Author(s)

• Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn

Bibliographic Information

"Or does it explode?" : Black Harlem in the Great Depression

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

Oxford University Press, 1997,

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-307) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The establishment of Harlem as the main area of black settlement and as a poor ghetto occurred before the Depression. When the Depression came, the blacks fell still further into poverty. Racism created and perpetuated Harlem's poverty, yet segregation and discrimination also produced strong social and political networks that served not only to meet immediate needs, but to mobilise thousands to demand a better life. In this extensively researched and well argued book, Cheryl Greenberg examines the growth in the 1930s of a widespread, activist, political culture in Harlem.

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Details

• NCID: BA35083008
• ISBN:
  • 0195115848
• LCCN: 96051559
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 317 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F128.68.H3
  • DC21 : 974.7/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government
  • LCSH : Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Depressions -- 1929 -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions