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

"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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haidarali, Laila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Temas:
1900-1999
African American women > Race identity > 20th century.
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > United States > 20th century.
Noires américaines > Identité ethnique > 20e siècle.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American women > Race identity.
African American women > Social conditions.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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