Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Laila Haidarali.
Haidarali, Laila, author.
2018
E185.86 .H225 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Laila Haidarali.
Author
Haidarali, Laila, author.
ISBN
9781479802081 (paperback)
1479802085 (paperback)
9781479875108 (hardcover)
1479875104 (hardcover)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
x, 335 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
E185.86 .H225 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/896073
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
Sociological discourses on color, class, youth, and gender, from Depression to World War II
Epilogue.

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