Colored no more : reinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C. / Treva B. Lindsey.
2017
E185.93.D6 L56 2017
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Title
Colored no more : reinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C. / Treva B. Lindsey.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9780252041020 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252082511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252099571 (e-book)
9780252082511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252099571 (e-book)
Published
Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
E185.93.D6 L56 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/8960730753
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
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Table of Contents
Climbing the hilltop: New Negro womanhood at Howard University
Make me beautiful: aesthetic discourses of New Negro womanhood
Performing and politicizing "ladyhood": black Washington women and New Negro suffrage activism
Saturday at the S Street Salon: New Negro playwrights
Conclusion: turn-of-the-century black womanhood.
Make me beautiful: aesthetic discourses of New Negro womanhood
Performing and politicizing "ladyhood": black Washington women and New Negro suffrage activism
Saturday at the S Street Salon: New Negro playwrights
Conclusion: turn-of-the-century black womanhood.