Haidarali, Laila, <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781479865499 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American women--Race identity--20th century.<br/>African American women--Social conditions--20th century.<br/>Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185  / .B769 2018