Becoming African Americans : Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939

Summary: 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.

Record details

OCLC: ocn648760634
ISBN: 0674032624
ISBN: 9780674032620
ISBN: 0674053656
ISBN: 9780674053656
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-270) and index.
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?
Note:	In English.