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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFCA; JFSJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
In the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and create opportunities for racial advancement. In Prove It On Me, Erin D. Chapman explores the gender and sexual politics of this modern racial ethos and reveals the constraining and exploitative underside of the New Negro era's vaunted liberation and opportunities. Chapman's cultural history documents the effects on black women of the intersection of primitivism, New Negro ... Read more
In the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and create opportunities for racial advancement. In Prove It On Me, Erin D. Chapman explores the gender and sexual politics of this modern racial ethos and reveals the constraining and exploitative underside of the New Negro era's vaunted liberation and opportunities. Chapman's cultural history documents the effects on black women of the intersection of primitivism, New Negro ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199758326
SKU
V9780199758326
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About Erin Chapman
Erin D. Chapman is Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.
Reviews for Prove it on Me
Prove It on Me illuminates the complexities of the New Negro era by refusing to simplify the forces shaping black life in the United States... It is a study of courage and conviction.
The Journal of American History
Erin D. Chapman's Prove It on Me is an excellent and important contribution to several overlapping fields, including twentieth-century U.S. ... Read more
The Journal of American History
Erin D. Chapman's Prove It on Me is an excellent and important contribution to several overlapping fields, including twentieth-century U.S. ... Read more