Harlem may still be the cultural nexus of black America, but its urban landscape is rapidly changing. The public authorities are massively investing here, and the middle classes, black and white, liberated from a lot of the old racial prejudices, are moving in, gradually chasing out the poor African-American population. Collective memory remains tightly bound up in the anti-race struggle and Harlem Renaissance, but the rows of brownstones, renovated one by one, are turning Harlem into a New York city neighbourhood like the rest.