Miss Anne in Harlem : the white women of the Black Renaissance / Carla Kaplan.

This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s and 1930s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Carla
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, [2013], ©2013.
New York, NY : [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Harlem Renaissance > History.
Women, White > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
African American intellectuals > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Women, White > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
NonFiction.
Historical.
Sociological.
Genre:
Biography.
NonFiction.
Historical.
Sociological.
Physical Description:xxxi, 505 pages, 16 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page," The Crisis
  • In search of Miss Anne
  • Miss Anne's world. Black and white identity politics ; An erotics of race
  • Choosing blackness : sex, love, and passing. Let my people go : Lillian E. Wood passes for Black ; Josephine Cogdell Schuyler : "The fall of a fair confederate"
  • Repudiating whiteness : politics, patronage, and primitivism. Black souls : Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black ; Charlotte Osgood Mason : "Mother of the Primitives"
  • Rewards and costs : publishing, performance, and modern rebellion. Imitation of life : Fannie Hurst's "Sensation in Harlem" ; Nancy Cunard : "I speak as if I were a Negro myself"
  • "Love and consequences".