color, sex, and race from the Harlem renaissance to world war II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Haidarali, Laila
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2018
- Thesaurus
- esthetiek, identiteit, zwarte vrouwen, vrouwbeelden, etniciteit, media, Verenigde Staten, interbellum, 1900-1949
- Description
- This book is about framing the appearance of African American women and expressions of race, class and status between 1920 and the end of the second world war. The idea of brown as a 'respectable shade' was thoroughly constructed through print and visual media in the interwar period. The book explores how the media created a beauty ideal for African American women, emphasizing different expressions of brown skin. It also analyzes how brownness affected urban, socially mobile new negro women, showing how most messages on brownness were directed at an aspirant middle-class.