Provincializing Harlem: The “Negro Metropolis” as Northern Frontier of a Connected Caribbean

Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies labor migration with particular attention to race and restrictive laws, on the one hand, and gender and family, on the other. Her publications include Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (2013) and The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960 (2002). modernism / modernity volume twenty, number three, pp 469–484. © 2013