E-book
Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Record details
- OCLC: on1045068801
- ISBN: 1479802085
- ISBN: 9781479802081
- ISBN: 1479875104
- ISBN: 9781479875108
- ISBN: 1479865494
- ISBN: 9781479865499
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Published: New York :New York University Press,[2018]
- Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Brown beginnings : imaging the new Negro woman in 1920s literary print culture -- Beautiful brown skin : advertising new Negro womanhood -- "Of the brown-skin type" : Madonnas, mulattas, and modern women in literary print culture -- "To a brown girl" : the Harlem Renaissance and the poetic discourse of brown -- Browning the dark princess : Asian Indian embodiment of new Negro -- Womanhood in Du Bois's fiction -- Sociological discourses on color, class, youth, and gender, from Depression to World War II -- Epilogue. |
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| Subject: | African American women -- Race identity -- 20th century African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States -- 20th century |
