Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place - Paperbackby Sandhya Shukla (Author) Over the course of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a representative site of gentrification. How do we understand the power of a place with so many claims and identifications? Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech,