| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 505 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-478) and index. |
| Contents |
"A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page," The crisis -- Introduction : in search of MIss Anne -- Part 1. Miss Anne's world. Black and white identity politics -- An erotics of race -- Part 2. Choosing blackness : sex, love, and passing. Let my people go : Lillian E. Wood passes for Black -- Josephine Cogdell Schuyler : "the fall of a fair confederate" -- Part 3. Repudiating whiteness : politics, patronage, and primitivism. Black souls : Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black -- Charlotte Osgood Mason : "mother of the primitives" -- Part 4. Rewards and costs : publishing, performance, and modern rebellion. Imitation of life : Fannie Hurst's "Sensation in Harlem" -- Nancy Cunard : "I speak as if I were a Negro myself" -- Epilogue : "love and consequences." |
| Summary |
This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s. |
| Subject |
Harlem Renaissance -- History.
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Women, White -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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African American intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Women, White -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Harlem renaissance.
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Intellektueller.
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Weibliche Weiße.
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New York, NY. |
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ocls african american adult books
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| Added Title |
White women of the Black Renaissance |
| ISBN |
9780060882389 : $28.99 |
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0060882387 |
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