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Author Haidarali, Laila, author.

Title Brown beauty : color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II / Laila Haidarali.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject African American women -- Race identity -- 20th century.
African American women -- Race identity.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African American women.
African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States -- 20th century.
African American women -- Social conditions.
United States.
Beauty, Personal.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
HISTORY / United States / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Other Form: Print version: Haidarali, Laila. Brown beauty. New York : New York University Press, 2018 9781479875108 (DLC) 2017045026 (OCoLC)1007035646
ISBN 9781479865499 (electronic book)
1479865494 (electronic book)
9781479875108 hardcover
1479875104 hardcover
9781479802081 paperback
1479802085 paperback
Standard No. 40028446142