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Miss Anne in Harlem : the white women of the Black Renaissance
Title:
Miss Anne in Harlem : the white women of the Black Renaissance
Author:
Kaplan, Carla, author.
Personal Author:
Kaplan, Carla, author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
Physical Description:
xxxi, 505 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary:
This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne, " who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s.
Language:
English
Contents:
"A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page, " The Crisis -- In search of MIss Anne -- Miss Anne's world. Black and white identity politics ; An erotics of race -- 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" -- Repudiating whiteness : politics, patronage, and primitivism. Black souls : Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black ; Charlotte Osgood Mason : "Mother of the Primitives" -- 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" -- "Love and consequences.
Subject Term:
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.
Geographic Term:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780060882389
Format :
Book

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