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Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Laila Haidarali.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479865499
Other title:
  • Color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E185 .B769 2018
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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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"--

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