@article{953385,
      recid = {953385},
      author = {Lindsey, Treva B.,},
      title = {Colored no more : reinventing black womanhood in  Washington, D.C. /},
      pages = {1 online resource (159 pages) :},
      abstract = {"This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington,  DC through various examples of African American women  challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and  heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood  as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and  collective identity inhabited by African American women  seeking to transform themselves and their communities  through demanding autonomy and equality for African  American women. The New Negro woman invested in upending  racial, gender, and class inequality and included race  women, blues women, playwrights, domestics, teachers,  mothers, sex workers, policy workers, beauticians, fortune  tellers, suffragists, same-gender couples, artists,  activists, and innovators. From these differing but  interconnected African American women's spaces comes an  urban, cultural history of the early twentieth century  struggles for freedom and equality that marked the New  Negro era in the nation's capital. Washington provided a  unique space in which such a vision of equality could  emerge and sustain. In the face of the continued pernicious  effects of Jim Crow racism and perpetual and institutional  racism and sexism, Lindsey demonstrates how African  American women in Washington made significant strides  towards a more equal and dynamic urban center. Witnessing  the possibility of social and political change empowered  New Negro women of Washington to struggle for the kind of  city, nation, and world they envisioned in political,  social, and cultural ways."--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/953385},
}