Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

Miss Anne in Harlem, the white women of the Black Renaissance, Carla Kaplan

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Miss Anne in Harlem, the white women of the Black Renaissance, Carla Kaplan
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-478) and index
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contains biographical information
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illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Miss Anne in Harlem
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
852801205
Responsibility statement
Carla Kaplan
Sub title
the white women of the Black Renaissance
Summary
This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne, " who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s
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."
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White women of the Black Renaissance
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