visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- kunsten, media, films, schrijvers, etniciteit, vrouwelijkheid, zwarte vrouwen, witte vrouwen, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. Portraits of the New Negro Woman investigates the visual and literary images of black femininity that occurred between the two world wars. Sherrard-Johnson traces the origins and popularization of these new representations in the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance and how they became an ambiguous symbol of racial uplift constraining African American womanhood in the early twentieth century.