Erin Chapman (Assistant Pr Assistant Professor of American Studies

Prove It on Me

New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s

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Produktbeschreibung

Prove It On Me explores the sexual politics of the modern racial ethos and reveals the exploitative underside of the New Negro era. Analyzing intersecting primitivism, consumerism, and New Negro patriarchal aspirations, this history investigates the uses made of black women in 1920s racial politics and popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780199758326
• ISBN-10: 0199758328
• Artikelnr.: 34156556

Autorenporträt

Erin D. Chapman is Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Race and Sex in the Wake of the Great Migration
* Chapter 1
* Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates and the Emergence of the New Negro
* Chapter 2
* Mothering the Race: New Negro Progressivism and the Work of Racial
Advancement
* Chapter 3
* Consuming the New Negro: The Whirlpools of the Sex-Race Marketplace
* Chapter 4
* Good Women: Race Motherhood, Sexuality, Self-Determination, and the
Nature of Oppression in the Words of New Negro Women
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index