Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages, 295-315) and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brown beauty

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1007035646

Responsibility statement

Laila Haidarali

Sub title

color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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 -- Sociological discourses on color, class, youth, and gender, from Depression to World War II -- Epilogue

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Color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II

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