| Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. Contributor(s): Lindsey, Treva B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025204102X ISBN-13: 9780252041020 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Women - History | African American - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) |
| Dewey: 305.488 |
| LCCN: 2016045891 |
| Series: Women in American History |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Black History - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 women's spaces, Lindsey excavates a multifaceted urban and cultural history of struggle toward a vision of equality that could emerge and sustain itself. Upward mobility to equal citizenship for African American women encompassed challenging racial, gender, class, and sexuality status quos. Lindsey maps the intersection of these challenges and their place at the core of New Negro womanhood. |