This Harlem life: black families and everyday life in the 1920s and 1930s.(SECTION II AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE)(Essay): An article from: Journal of Social History
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From the author: This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualized perspective on everyday life that other scholars have provided for high culture, but which does not exist for other realms of existence in Harlem, even in early twentieth century sociological studies of black life. Where scholars seeking to distinguish the neighborhood from a slum have pointed to the prevailing pride and self-confidence of its residents, this article directs attention to more immediate, concrete supports that sustained and enriched life in Harlem. Relationships with spouses, children, siblings and cousins sustained individuals faced with the social reality of living in overcrowded, deteriorating, disease infested housing, subject to the racism of white police, politicians and employers; so too did friendships made in nightclubs, speakeasies, dances and movie theatres, and membership of churches, fraternal organizations, social clubs, and sports clubs and teams.
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Title: This Harlem life: black families and everyday life in the 1920s and 1930s.(SECTION II AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE)(Essay)
Author: Stephen Robertson
Publication:Journal of Social History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2010
Publisher: Journal of Social History
Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Page: 97(28)
Article Type: Essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualized perspective on everyday life that other scholars have provided for high culture, but which does not exist for other realms of existence in Harlem, even in early twentieth century sociological studies of black life. Where scholars seeking to distinguish the neighborhood from a slum have pointed to the prevailing pride and self-confidence of its residents, this article directs attention to more immediate, concrete supports that sustained and enriched life in Harlem. Relationships with spouses, children, siblings and cousins sustained individuals faced with the social reality of living in overcrowded, deteriorating, disease infested housing, subject to the racism of white police, politicians and employers; so too did friendships made in nightclubs, speakeasies, dances and movie theatres, and membership of churches, fraternal organizations, social clubs, and sports clubs and teams.
Citation Details
Title: This Harlem life: black families and everyday life in the 1920s and 1930s.(SECTION II AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE)(Essay)
Author: Stephen Robertson
Publication:Journal of Social History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2010
Publisher: Journal of Social History
Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Page: 97(28)
Article Type: Essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
