Blood Relations – Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900–1930

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 1996

Through interviews, census data, and biography, Watkins-Owens shows how immigrants and southern African American migrants settled together in railroad flats and brownstones, worked primarily at service occupations, often lodged with relatives or home people, and strove to "make it" in New York.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253210487
ISBN-10: 0253210488
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 15 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930.In Blood Relations Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the twentieth century. Between 1900 and 1930, 40,000 Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City and joined with African Americans to create the unique ethnic community of Harlem.

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Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Intraracial Ethnicity in Harlem, 1900-1930
2 Panama Silver Meets Jim Crow
3 "On to Harlem"
4 Churches, Benevolent Associations, and Ethnicity
5 Politics and the Struggle for Autonomy
6 Stepladder to Community
7 Marcus Garvey: "Negro Subject of Great Britain"
8 Ethnic and Race Enterprise
9 The Underground Entrepreneur
10 Harlem Writers and Intraracial Ethnicity
11 Conclusion: Blood Relations in the Black Metropolis
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

IRMA WATKINS-OWENS is Assistant Professor and Director of the African American and African Studies Institute at Fordham University-Lincoln Center Campus.

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