4 Selfhood and Difference: Piri Thomas and Aladdin on the Streets of Harlem

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. An Introduction to Harlem: Theory, Method, and Material 1
4. 1 Langston Hughes’s Harlem: “Spanish Blood” and Geographies of Blackness 45
5. 2 Mapping Place: The Facts and Fictions of Claude McKay’s Harlem Imaginary 93
6. 3 Crossings at Home and in the World: Vito Marcantonio’s Working- Class Cosmopolitanism 137
7. 4 Selfhood and Difference: Piri Thomas and Aladdin on the Streets of Harlem 185
8. A Coda for the Stories: Futures for Harlem 239
9. Acknowledgments 247
10. Notes 251
11. Index 305