Whose Harlem is this, anyway? : community politics and grassroots activism during the new Negro era /
Shannon King.
- New York : New York University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (pages cm).
- Culture, Labor, History .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9781479866915
African Americans--Social conditions--New York (State)--New York--20th century. African Americans--Politics and government--New York (State)--New York--20th century. Harlem (New York, N.Y.).