RFT: Borderlands

Fall 2002

Dr. Jani, Dr. Sanchez

Readings for Harlem Field Trip

Browse through these sites to familiarize yourself with the history and meaning of Harlem. Make sure you view at least one site from each category so that you can contribute to Wednesday’s discussion.

Harlem: History and Background

From “Harlem Ontime”

http://www.harlem-ontime.com/main.html

From the “Home to Harlem” Webpage

Click http://www.hometoharlem.com/Harlem/hthadmin.nsf/harlem/homepage

Go to “Harlem History”

From “Harlem Spirituals”

http://www.harlemspirituals.com/harlem.html

The Harlem Renaissance

Exhibit: “Harlem, 1900-1940”

http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/

A good site on the Harlem Renaissance

http://www.nku.edu/%7Ediesmanj/harlem.html

Literature from the Harlem Renaissance

“Harlem,” Alain Locke

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/LocHarlT.html

Poetry by Langston Hughes

http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/hughes.html#dinner

Some Analysis of Harlem’s Borders

From Gilbert Osofsky’s Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto

http://tigger.uic.edu/~wplotk1/deeds/www/osofsky.html

George M. Frederickson on US residential segregation

http://tigger.uic.edu/~wplotk1/deeds/www/fredrickson.html

A review article of Osofsky’s Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto

http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=666

Further Reading

See the website of Wendy Plotkin, who wrote a Ph.D. dissertation called “Deeds of Mistrust: Racial Restrictive Covenant in Chicago, 1900-1953.”

http://tigger.uic.edu/~wplotk1/deeds/