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Author Lindsey, Treva B., 1983-

Title Colored No More : Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Publication Info. Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (159 pages).
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Series Women in American History Ser.
Women in American History Ser.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Climbing the Hilltop: New Negro Womanhood at Howard University; 2 Make Me Beautiful: Aesthetic Discourses of New Negro Womanhood; 3 Performing and Politicizing "Ladyhood": Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism; 4 Saturday at the S Street Salon: New Negro Women Playwrights; Conclusion: Turn-of-the-Century Black Womanhood; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. 'Colored No More' traces how African American women of the late-19th and early 20th century made significant strides toward making the nation's capital a more equal and dynamic urban centre.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-176) and index.
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Subject African American women -- Washington (D.C.) -- History.
African American women.
Washington (D.C.)
History.
Women, Black -- Race identity.
Women, Black.
African American women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
African American women -- Political activity -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Political activity.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Suffrage.
Women -- Washington (D.C.) -- History.
Women.
Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Lindsey, Treva B. Colored No More : Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. Champaign : University of Illinois Press, ©2017 9780252041020
ISBN 9780252099571
0252099575
9780252041020 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
025204102X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780252082511 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0252082516 (paperback ; alkaline paper)