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Informationen zum Autor IRMA WATKINS-OWENS is Assistant Professor and Director of the African American and African Studies Institute at Fordham University-Lincoln Center Campus. Klappentext Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930.In Blood Relations Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the twentieth century. Between 1900 and 1930, 40,000 Caribbean immigrants settled in New York City and joined with African Americans to create the unique ethnic community of Harlem. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the 20th century. The author confronts issues of Caribbean immigrant and black American relations, placing their interaction in the context of community formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Intraracial Ethnicity in Harlem, 1900-1930 2 Panama Silver Meets Jim Crow 3 "On to Harlem" 4 Churches, Benevolent Associations, and Ethnicity 5 Politics and the Struggle for Autonomy 6 Stepladder to Community 7 Marcus Garvey: "Negro Subject of Great Britain" 8 Ethnic and Race Enterprise 9 The Underground Entrepreneur 10 Harlem Writers and Intraracial Ethnicity 11 Conclusion: Blood Relations in the Black Metropolis Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
