Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
by Treva B. Lindsey
Publication Date: Mar 29, 2017
List Price: $129.99
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780252041020
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Parent Company: University of Illinois
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.
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