Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Treva B. Lindsey
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Description for Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the nation's capital a more equal and dynamic urban center.
Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American ... Read more
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the nation's capital a more equal and dynamic urban center.
Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Women in American History
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252041020
SKU
V9780252041020
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About Treva B. Lindsey
Treva B. Lindsey is an associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University.
Reviews for Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 "Treva Lindsey, in Colored No More, is as bold as the women about whom she writes. Fresh research, illuminated by feminist theory, reveals how 'New Negro Womanhood' became a framework through which African American women developed modern identities. The politics of respectability confront the politics of pleasure in this outstanding study."
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