Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject....Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that—all of which this book displays in abundance." (Zadie Smith, Harper's)

A finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a cru…