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Cross-Cultural Harlem

Reimagining Race and Place
  • Sandhya Shukla
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial.

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Sandhya Shukla is associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. She is the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (2003) and a coeditor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (2007).

Reviews

Shane Vogel, author of Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze:
Reminding us of the concrete and abstract relationships that make up a neighborhood, Sandhya Shukla remaps Harlem’s affective geographies. Through Shukla’s elegant close readings and intertextual creativity, we are given a new path through the solidarities of grief and hope that have long made Harlem a home for radical imagination.

Vera M. Kutzinski, author of The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas:
In Cross-Cultural Harlem, Sandhya Shukla offers a beautifully nuanced reimagining of Harlem as a dynamic space where people have lived in difference rather than just with differences, in which identities and identifications are far more complex than often simplified notions of race relations suggest. This valuable book tells a much fuller, multifaceted story of cultural encounters in upper Manhattan.

Jacqueline Nassy Brown, author of Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool:
Cross-Cultural Harlem is a beautiful and daring piece of scholarship. Sandhya Shukla tells new stories about an iconic neighborhood and casts a fresh eye on sedimented ones. The result is a careful, compassionate, and compelling case for a place-based and racially complex ethic of relationality.


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