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Portraits of the new Negro woman : visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance /
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Black women writers series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813542405 9780813542409 1281092533 9781281092533 9786611092535 6611092536 |