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Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
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Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Laila Haidarali.
ISBN
9781479875108
1479875104
9781479802081
1479802085
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Laila Haidarali's "Brown Beauty: Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II" is a critical study of racial issues and specifically the meanings of the word "brown" when used as a reference to physical appearance of African American women during the time period from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 23, 2018
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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