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Becoming African Americans : Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / Clare Corbould.

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Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations soug...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Corbould, Clare
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African diaspora.
African Americans
African Americans > Race identity
African Americans > Social conditions
African diaspora
1877-1999
History
Table of Contents:
  • Africa the motherland
  • Discovering a usable African past
  • Institutionalizing Africa, past and present
  • The artistic capital of Africa
  • Haiti, a stepping-stone to Africa
  • Ethiopia ahoy!
  • What's in a name?

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