ISBN:
9780199758326
,
9781283427760
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 189 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Prove It On Me
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
African American women Social conditions 20th century
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Harlem Renaissance
;
African American women in popular culture History 20th century
;
African American women Intellectual life 20th century
;
USA
;
Frau
;
Schwarze
;
Pop-Kultur
;
Soziale Situation
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Geschichte
;
United States Race relations 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
In the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and create opportunities for racial advancement. In Prove It On Me, Erin D. Chapman explores the gender and sexual politics of this modern racial ethos and reveals the constraining and exploitative underside of the New Negro era's vaunted liberation and opportunities. Chapman's cultural history documents the effects on bla
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Race and Sex in the Wake of the Great Migration; 1 Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates and the Emergence of the New Negro; 2 Mothering the Race: New Negro Progressivism and the Work of Racial Advancement; 3 Consuming the New Negro: The Whirlpools of the Sex-Race Marketplace; 4 Solidarity, Sex, Happiness, and Oppression in the Words of New Negro Women; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
