Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s
Author:   Erin Chapman (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199758319


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 March 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Erin Chapman (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780199758319


ISBN 10:   019975831
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Race and Sex in the Wake of the Great Migration 1. Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates and the Emergence of the New Negro 2. Mothering the Race: New Negro Progressivism and the Work of Racial Advancement 3. Consuming the New Negro: The Whirlpools of the Sex-Race Marketplace 4. Good Women: Race Motherhood, Sexuality, Self-Determination, and the Nature of Oppression in the Words of New Negro Women Notes Bibliography Index

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<br> 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. --Journal of American History<p><br>


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 A robust cultural history... Prove It On Me is a necessary read for those interested in a deeply invested and methodologically potent cultural history of black gender and sexual politics in inter-war America... this text will become a canonical study of black women's cultural history in many years to come. --Callaloo


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. history, gender history, African American history, sexuality studies, and the history of popular culture... Chapman's fine work is an excellent contribution to a conversation underway about the relationship between the market and black modernity... It is an exemplary work of cultural history that provides new reading of important historical texts and figures, while offering new analytic frameworks that will influence emerging scholarship in several fields. American Historical Review A robust cultural history...Prove It On Me is a necessary read for those interested in a deeply invested and methodologically potent cultural history of black gender and sexual politics in inter-war America... This text will become a canonical study of black women's cultural history in many years to come. Callaloo


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Erin D. Chapman is Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.

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