@article{1478806,
      recid = {1478806},
      author = {Corbould, Clare, },
      title = {Becoming African Americans : Black Public Life in Harlem,  1919-1939 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (304 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478806},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053656},
}