{"product_id":"race-capital-9780231183239","title":"Race Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem’s social, political, and intellectual history, its artistic, cultural, and economic life, and its representation across an array of media and genres. \u003ci\u003eRace Capital?\u003c\/i\u003e models new Harlem scholarship that interrogates exceptionalism while taking seriously the importance of place and locality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarlem: race capital, center of black culture, seat of black militancy—or dreamscape? These rigorous, innovative, and bold essays by contemporary scholars confront the myriad ways Harlem signifies and offer fresh, new ways of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings of that iconic place. -- Mary Helen Washington, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA marvelous collection of scholars from across disciplines offer an unparalleled understanding of the importance—real, symbolic, or imagined—of Harlem to African American and black diasporic cultures. -- George Hutchinson, author of \u003ci\u003eFacing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith forceful essays and sharp framing, this volume offers an indispensable treatment of a single, iconic American neighborhood, providing, with it, a window to the world.  \u003ci\u003eRace Capital?\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us why and how Harlem is a feeling, a place, and a force of history.  It captures, too, why we still need reminding at all. -- N. D. B. Connolly, author of \u003ci\u003eA World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese fascinating essays will change the way you think about modern Harlem. From numbers-runners to communists, poets to street-corner orators, Harlemites have been making and remaking urban culture since the Great Migration. Provocative, luminous, and eye-opening, this collection exemplifies the very best of recent scholarship about the Mecca of black America. -- Martha Biondi, author of \u003ci\u003eTo Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this important and timely book, the wide-ranging and layered interrogation of the so-called “race capital” trope reveals a Harlem with much of its warts, contradictions, subtleties, and splendor. The chapters prod and provoke, unearthing new ways, across space and time, of thinking about a place that we thought we knew. -- Shannon King, author of \u003ci\u003eWhose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism During the New Negro Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bold multidisciplinary work and deserves scholarly attention. * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThis wonderful collection . . . assembles a treasure trove of essays that cut across disciplinary and chronological divides. . . . Wide-ranging [and] thought-provoking. * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace Capital? \u003c\/i\u003eissues forth intriguing thoughts on the continued debate over Harlem’s exceptionalism. . . .The collection’s variegated source material, from the visual to the literary, lends credence to the ways in which Harlem can still be deeply investigated. * Journal of African American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Mythologies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. From Prophecy to Preservation: Harlem as Temporal Vector, by Andrew M. Fearnley\u003cbr\u003e2. Class, Gender, and Community in \u003ci\u003eHarlem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e: Representing Black Urban Modernity in Interwar African American Newspapers, by Clare Corbould\u003cbr\u003e3. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto Discourse, by Daniel Matlin\u003cbr\u003e4. What’s the Matter with \u003ci\u003eBaby Sister\u003c\/i\u003e?: Chester Himes’s Struggles to Film Harlem, by Paula J. Massood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Models\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Harlem’s Difference, by Winston James\u003cbr\u003e6. Black Women’s Intellectual Labor and the Social Spaces of Black Radical Thought in Harlem, by Minkah Makalani\u003cbr\u003e7. Harlem as Culture Capital in 1920s African American Fiction, by Cheryl A. Wall\u003cbr\u003e8. City of Numbers: Rethinking Harlem’s Place in Black Business History, by Shane White\u003cbr\u003e9. Harlem, USA: Capital of the Black Freedom Movement, by Brian Purnell\u003cbr\u003e10. Richard Bruce Nugent and the Queer Memory of Harlem, by Dorothea Löbbermann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Black No More?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Race, Class, and Gentrification in Harlem Since 1980, by Themis Chronopoulos\u003cbr\u003e12. When Harlem Was in \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, by John L. Jackson Jr.\u003cbr\u003eHarlem: An Afterword, by Farah Jasmine Griffin\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400319902039,"sku":"9780231183239","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231183239.jpg?v=1730470379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-capital-9780231183239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}