ISBN:
9781479865499
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Series Statement:
NYU scholarship online
DDC:
305.48896073
Keywords:
Geschichte 1920-1945
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Schönheitsideal
;
Ethnische Identität
;
African American women Race identity 20th century
;
African American women Social conditions 20th century
;
Beauty, Personal Social aspects 20th century
;
USA
Abstract:
Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a discourse that privileged a representative ideal of brown beauty womanhood emerged as one expression of race, class, and women's status in the modern nation. This discourse on brown beauty accrued great cultural currency across the interwar years as it appeared in diverse and multiple forms. Studying artwork and photography; commercial and consumer-oriented advertising; and literature, poetry, and sociological works, this text analyzes African American print culture with a central interest in women's social history. It explores the diffuse ways that brownness impinged on socially mobile New Negro women in the urban environment during the interwar years and shows how the discourse was constructed as a self-regulating guide directed at an aspiring middle class.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479875108.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479875108.001.0001
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