Recently added articles from Afro - Americans in New York Life and History:
Introduction: The Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP) and Approaches to Scholarship About/For Black Communities
Jul 01, 2009; ... "I think that part of the (the black scholar's) responsibility is to help the people to see themselves in a new light, to see themselves not primarily as victims of America but as co-creators of the past, as co-creators of the present, and as co-creators of a new vision for creating the American ...
A Transnational Sense of "Home": Twentieth-Century West Indian Immigration and Institution Building in the Bronx
Jul 01, 2009; ... Caribbean immigration remains central to New York City's history, as more than a million migrants from various Caribbean territories have settled the city's neighborhoods from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Furthermore, Caribbean migrants have made invaluable contributions to ...
Desegregating the Jim Crow North: Racial Discrimination in the Postwar Bronx and the Fight to Integrate the Castle Hill Beach Club (1953-1973)
Jul 01, 2009; ... On a brisk, bright afternoon in late March 1953, Anita Brown, a thirty-one year old housewife, left her apartment in the Bronx River Houses, boarded a city bus and traveled three miles southeast to the Castle Hill Beach Club (CHBC). She went to apply for a seasonal membership pass, which would ...
Developing Their Minds without Losing Their Soul: Black and Latino Student Coalition-Building in New York, 1965-1969
Jul 01, 2009; ... This essay focuses on late- 1960s African American and Latino student coalition-building on two New York City campuses: Lehman College in the Bronx and City College of New York in Harlem. Based on oral histories, archival documents and printed sources, the two case studies show parallels, ...
Histories and "Her Stories" from the Bronx: Excavating Hidden Hip Hop Narratives
Jul 01, 2009; ... Popular and academic understandings of the cultural production of hip hop tend to focus on the music as a site of misogyny, aggressive masculinity and rampant consumerism. Historical accounts of hip hop have privileged male narratives, stifling women's stories and their valuable contributions to ...