Stormy Weather Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars / Anastasia C. Curwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curwood, Anastasia Carol, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families.

African Americans--Marriage.

African Americans.

United States--History--1919-1933.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships should actually function in an ideal New Negro marriage. Shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of African American social history, Anastasia Curwood explores the public and private negotiations over gender relationships inside marriage that consumed upwardly mobile black Americans be

Contents:

From uplift to new negro marriages : changing ideals of sexuality and activism in African American marriages, 1890-1940

New negro husbands

New negro wives

The everyday challenges of upward mobility : class identity and married couples

Love and trouble in interwar marriages.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ([185]-194) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908798-5-1

979-88-9313-211-3

1-4696-0387-X

0-8078-6838-8

OCLC:

682621078