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Aug 20, 2015 · Tracing 350 Years of Harlem's Ever-Shifting Boundaries. By Keith Williams Aug 20, 2015, 5:15pm EDT. Some neighborhood names appear to be jokes. Some have stuck around for centuries,...
Sep 30, 2019 · The history of 125th street is rich and challenging. The spatial analysis of this project allows us to visualize the massive influx of African Americans into the neighborhood of Harlem, and the study of building footprints allows for uses and stories to be unearthed.
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While much has been written about Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association, remarkably little has considered its physical presence in Harlem, its main “base of organization.”[ii] Yet, in many ways, Garvey was synonymous with this neighbourhood in these years. And through his savvy alliance with local photographer James Van Der Zee, he a...
While Peate’s map captures the role such businesses played in sustaining Harlem’s vernacular intellectual, and political radical, traditions, other students probed Harlem’s economic character, especially given the limited employment and entrepreneurial opportunities people of colour enjoyed in this setting. Sean Welsh’s study of Harlem’s pushcart t...
Alongside these transformations in New York’s built environment, cultural studies scholars have been attentive to what Paula Massood calls the “transition” in how urban communities, especially Harlem, were visually depicted, not least through “a more dynamic form of urban photojournalism” and mass circulation magazines.[ix] Jasmine Bennett’s map ca...
Mar 31, 2024 · Axel In Harlen Animan Studios
In harlem, few places are as rich in art and cultural history as the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. This map-poster-guide shows the homes, nightclubs, churches and other sites associated with Harlem’s writers, artists, musicians, thinkers, and political leaders.
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Oct 29, 2009 · The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in NYC as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted.
