Harlem Is Nowhere by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts audiobook

Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Read by Karen Chilton

Recorded Books, Inc.

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: CD
  • 2 Formats: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781664404311

  • ISBN: 9781664512146

Runtime: 8.77 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Social Science
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

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

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“This book’s alive…it’s intoxicating.” —New York Times
“Rhodes-Pitts unearths gems from Harlem’s rich history.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Dazzling riffs on the cultural citadel of Black America.” —Independent (London)
“Rhodes-Pitts honors the dreamers imagining what Harlem could be, while never losing sight of how each of them was thwarted by the disconnect between the heaven they envisioned and the reality they lived.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Author

Author Bio: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Author Bio: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Essence, Harper’s, Transition, and Vogue. She has received a Lannan Foundation fellowship and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2007. Rhodes-Pitts was born in Texas and educated at Harvard University

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Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD
Category: Nonfiction/Social Science
Runtime: 8.77
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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