Publisher Description
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared a common hope that Harlem would become the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy. ". a glittering living tapestry ."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
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“Rhodes-Pitts honors the dreamers imagining what Harlem could be, while never losing sight of how each of them was thwarted by the disconnect between the heaven they envisioned and the reality they lived.”
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
About Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Essence, Harper’s, Transition, and Vogue. She has received a Lannan Foundation fellowship and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2007. Rhodes-Pitts was born in Texas and educated at Harvard University
About Karen Chilton
Karen Chilton is a New York–based actor and writer and an accomplished voice-over artist and narrator. She has narrated dozens of audiobooks, won three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2020 won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narration. Her voice can be heard on numerous national network television, radio, and Internet advertising campaigns.