Portraits of the New Negro Woman - Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance - Cherene Sherrard Johnson - Paperback Bog - Rutgers
Brand: Rutgers University Press
Description
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. This title investigates the visual and literary images of black femininity that occurred between the two world wars. It illuminates the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance.