Harlem Is Nowhere

Harlem Is Nowhere


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“This book’s alive…it’s intoxicating.”

New York Times


A Slate Magazine Best Book in Nonfiction of the Last 25 Years

The Independent (UK) Best Books of the Year selection

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year selection

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