Colored no more : reinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C.

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"This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and collective id...

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Main Author: Lindsey, Treva B., 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
Subjects:
African American women > Washington (D.C.) > History.
Women, Black > Race identity.
African American women > Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs.
African American women > Political activity > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Women > Washington (D.C.) > History.
Salons > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Climbing the hilltop: New Negro womanhood at Howard University
  • Make me beautiful: aesthetic discourses of New Negro womanhood
  • Performing and politicizing "ladyhood": black Washington women and New Negro suffrage activism
  • Saturday at the S Street Salon: New Negro playwrights
  • Conclusion: turn-of-the-century black womanhood.

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