Becoming African Americans : Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / Clare Corbould.

9780674053656

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]

©2009

English

In English.

1 online resource (304 p.)

10.4159/9780674053656 doi

E185.61 .C779 2009eb

973/.0496073

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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