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Colored no more : reinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C. /

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Main Author: Lindsey, Treva B., 1983- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
Subjects:
African American women > Washington (D.C.) > History.
Women, Black > Race identity.
African American women > Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs.
African American women > Political activity > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Women > Washington (D.C.) > History.
Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Salons > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Climbing the hilltop: New Negro womanhood at Howard University
  • Make me beautiful: aesthetic discourses of New Negro womanhood
  • Performing and politicizing "ladyhood": black Washington women and New Negro suffrage activism
  • Saturday at the S Street Salon: New Negro playwrights
  • Conclusion: turn-of-the-century black womanhood.