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  • Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

    Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance University of North Carolina Press April 2004 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 19 illus., 2 charts, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2868-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5531-7 Daylanne K. English, Associate Professor of English & Chair Macalester College Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American…

  • Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head

    Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head English Academy Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (May 2008) pages 66-76 DOI: 10.1080/10131750802099490 Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Her research aims to situate mixed race studies in a relatively unexplored sub-Saharan African context.) Nella…

  • Race and Mixed Race

    Race and Mixed Race Temple University Press October 1993 232 pages 6×9 paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-265-5, ISBN: 1-56639-265-9      Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to…

  • Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance

    Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…

  • The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

    An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.

  • Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

    Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review) Legacy Volume 26, Number 1 (2009) pages 182-184 E-ISSN: 1534-0643 Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.0.0069 Martha Jane Nadell, Associate Professor Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Cherene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the…