Bridging Borders: African North Americans in Great Lakes Cities, 1920s–1940s.

The article focuses on the history of African North Americans in Great Lakes cities between 1920 and 1950. The author discusses diasporic Africans, including African Americans, African Canadians, and immigrants from the Caribbean, explores their dislocation, relocation, and rootedness, and examines how they imagined a pan-African zone in the Great Lakes region.