Brown Beauty : Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Laila Haidarali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haidarali, Laila, Author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Race identity--20th century.

African American women.

African American women--Social conditions--20th century.

Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--United States--20th century.

Beauty, Personal.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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

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

Womanhood in Du Bois's fiction

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

Epilogue.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-6549-4

OCLC:

1045068801