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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825735803321

Autore

Greenberg Cheryl Lynn

Titolo

Or does it explode? : Black Harlem in the great depression / / Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771511-7

1-280-52959-8

0-19-802248-4

1-4237-3896-9

0-19-535390-0

1-60256-216-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

974.7/100496073

Soggetti

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Politics and government

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions

New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions

New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1898-1951

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p247-307. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-307) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing the establishment of Harlem as the main area of black settlement in New York City, this study explains how both poverty created by the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the descrimination against blacks, led to the growth of a politically active black movement in Harlem.