Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I: MYTHOLOGIES
7. 1. From Prophecy to Preservation: Harlem as Temporal Vector 27
8. 2. Class, Gender, and Community in Harlem Sketches: Representing Black Urban Modernity in Interwar African American Newspapers 47
9. 3. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto Discourse 71
10. 4. What’s the Matter with Baby Sister?: Chester Himes’s Struggles to Film Harlem 91
11. PART II: MODELS
12. 5. Harlem’s Difference 111
13. 6. Black Women’s Intellectual Labor and the Social Spaces of Black Radical Thought in Harlem 143
14. 7. Harlem as Culture Capital in 1920s African American Fiction 165
15. 8. City of Numbers: Rethinking Harlem’s Place in Black Business History 183
16. 9. Harlem, USA: Capital of the Black Freedom Movement 201
17. 10. Richard Bruce Nugent and the Queer Memory of Harlem 221
18. PART III: BLACK NO MORE?
19. 11. Race, Class, and Gentrification in Harlem Since 1980 243
20. 12. When Harlem Was in Vogue Magazine 267
21. Harlem: An Afterword 285
22. Contributors 289
23. Index 293