Prove it on me : new Negroes, sex, and popular culture in the 1920s / Erin D. Chapman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chapman, Erin D.
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
African American women in popular culture > History > 20th century.
African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Oscar Micheaux's Within our gates and the emergence of the new Negro
  • Mothering the race: new Negro progressivism and the work of racial advancement
  • Consuming the new Negro: the whirlpools of the sex-race marketplace
  • Good women: race, motherhood, sexuality, self-determination, and the nature of oppression in the words of new Negro women.