Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, (Paperback)

from rmharris

Perhaps this should be titled "Harlem on Her Mind." This is an atmospheric portrait of the "Capital of Black America." Rhodes-Pitts' mixes the idea of Harlem that she gets from reading African-American authors (Hughes, Baldwin, Ellison), with her actual experience living there, and researching th...

from pinkcrayon99

Seeing that this book was one of those that I was "saving" in my TBR pile, I wanted it to be extraordinary and worth the wait. I was disappointed. I really wanted this book to ooze with all the Harlem goodies I imagined. There was no ooze. "I don't remember a thrill that was specific to being in ...

from katkat50

If Harlem could speak, this book would be its memoir. Of course, Harlem can and does speak, but in many voices and over more than a century of history. In Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts introduces us to some of those voices and history in a series...

from jbealy

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts has written a tribute to Harlem that she can be proud of and gives much to the rest of us to think about. Arriving in Harlem when gentrification was well on its way to changing the face of this once thriving "mecca" of black american culture, Rhodes-Pitts is, in turn, residen...

from xaverie

Though it took me a while to get through this book I'm glad I did. It's a very personal and richly written history of Harlem, including a lot of very personal insights from the author. She gives the reader insight not just into the straight up history of the area but also the people, the art, the...