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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaplan, Carla (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
Edition:	First edition.
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.

Table of Contents:

"A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page," The Crisis
Introduction: In search of MIss Anne
1. Miss Anne's world
Black and white identity politics
An erotics of race
2. Choosing blackness: sex, love, and passing
Let me people go: Lillian E. Wood passes for Black
Josephine Cogdell Schuyler: "The fall of a fair confederate"
3. Repudiating whiteness: politics, patronage, and primitivism
Black souls: Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black
Charlotte Osgood Mason: "Mother of the Primitives"
4. 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"
Epilogue: "Love and consequences."