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Portraits of the New Negro Woman : Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; Ebooks Corporation.; ebrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.

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Author

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; Ebooks Corporation.; ebrary, Inc

Publisher

Rutgers; Rutgers University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813542409

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science, Memoir