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Prove it on me : new Negroes, sex, and popular culture in the 1920s / Erin D. Chapman.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .C433 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Erin D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women in popular culture--History--20th century.
- African American women in popular culture.
- African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African American women.
- African American women--Intellectual life.
- African American women--Social conditions--20th century.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- African American women--Social conditions.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- The New Negro era is often romanticized as an epoch of newfound cultural freedom for African Americans in the wake of the Great Migration. Yet despite these liberties, African American women still faced oppression and objectification in everyday life Prove it On Me explores the often overlooked gender and sexual politics of the period to reveal a vexing, exploitative underside. Marshaling a wide array of resources-newspapers, novels, blues lyrics, films, sermons, and other cultural materials-Erin D. Chapman documents the dilemma fating black women as they struggled against primitivism, patriarchal aspirations, and consumer culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. A rich interdisciplinary study, Prove it On Me provides a much-needed corrective to an important part of America's past Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Oscar Micheaux's Within our gates and the emergence of the new Negro
- Mothering the race: new Negro progressivism and the work of racial advancement
- Consuming the new Negro: the whirlpools of the sex-race marketplace
- Good women: race, motherhood, sexuality, self-determination, and the nature of oppression in the words of new Negro women.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199758319
- 019975831X
- 9780199758326
- 0199758328
- OCLC:
- 728892105
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