Eating, Dancing, and Courting in New York Black and Latino Relations, 1930–1970

Using records from the WPA's "America Eats" project, manuscript collections, periodicals, oral histories, and autobiographies, the paper interprets Black and Latino relations in Harlem, New York and further north in the Suburbs of Westchester County. The paper focuses on southern African American and Hispanic Caribbean migrants in New York and the race and gender dynamics that develop between them.