ISBN:
9781479802081
,
9781479875108
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 335 pages
,
illustrations
,
23 cm
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
African American women Race identity 20th century
;
African American women Social conditions 20th century
;
Beauty, Personal Social aspects 20th century
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
USA
;
Harlem renaissance
;
Schwarze
;
Geschlechterverhältnis
;
Geschichte 1920-1945
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index
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