Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II /
Haidarali, Laila,
Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II Laila Haidarali. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781479865499
African American women--Race identity--20th century.
African American women--Social conditions--20th century.
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .B769 2018
Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II Laila Haidarali. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781479865499
African American women--Race identity--20th century.
African American women--Social conditions--20th century.
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .B769 2018