SECTION 1:
A CURRICULUM’S CONTENTS
SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is the author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and a National Book Critics Circle Finalist, and was cited by BOOKFORUM as the “Best New York Book” written in the twenty years since the magazine’s founding. She is currently working on a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia: Harlem, Haiti, and the Black Belt of the American South. Rhodes-Pitts runs a pop-up bookstore, BLACKNUSS: books + other relics, and organizes public projects through The Freedwomen’s Bureau.