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Autore |
Corbould Clare |
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Titolo |
Becoming African Americans : Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / / Clare Corbould |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - History - 1877-1964 |
African Americans - Race identity |
African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century |
African diaspora |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-270) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Africa the motherland -- Discovering a usable African past -- Institutionalizing Africa, past and present -- The artistic capital of Africa -- "That land of freedom" : Haiti, primitivism, and Black American identity -- Ethiopia ahoy! -- Conclusion : what's in a name?. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American. |
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