Introduction
Vicious Modernism
Part I. the Legendary Capital: the 1920s and 1930s
1.The legendary capital
2. City of refuge
3. Crossing the color line
4. Me revoici, Harlem
Part II. The Emerging Ghetto: The 1940s and 1950s
5. The emerging ghetto
6. Go tell it on the mountain
7. Montage of a dream deferred
8. Megro de todo o mundo
Part III. the Inner City: the 1960s and 1970s
9. The inner city
10. Jitterbugging in the streets
11. Echoes in a burnt building
12. Mumbo jumbo
Epilogue: black Harlem and the literary imagination
Appendices.

Inhaltsangabe