Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919–1939

Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919–1939
ISBN-10
0674032624
ISBN-13
9780674032620
Category
Social Science
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2009-03-31
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Clare Corbould

Description

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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