TY - BOOK ID - 86106017 TI - Brown Beauty : Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II PY - 2018 SN - 1479865494 1479875104 PB - New York, NY : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African American women KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Beauty KW - Complexion KW - Grooming, Personal KW - Grooming for women KW - Personal beauty KW - Personal grooming KW - Toilet (Grooming) KW - Hygiene KW - Beauty culture KW - Beauty shops KW - Cosmetics KW - Afro-American women KW - Women, African American KW - Women, Negro KW - Women KW - Race identity KW - Social conditions KW - Social aspects KW - African American literature. KW - African American womanhood. KW - African American women. KW - African American youth. KW - Brown v Board of Education. KW - Charles H Parrish. KW - Charles S Johnson. KW - Cold War politics. KW - Dark Princess A Romance. KW - Elise Johnson McDougald. KW - Franklin E Frazier. KW - Great Depression. KW - Harlem Renaissance fiction. KW - Harlem educator. KW - New Negro woman. KW - New Negro. KW - The Crisis. KW - W E B Du Bois. KW - WWII. KW - black beauty ideals. KW - black middle class. KW - brown skin beauty ideals. KW - brown skin models. KW - brown-skin mulatta. KW - consumer advertising. KW - consumption. KW - cosmetics. KW - gender politics. KW - interwar years. KW - literary journals. KW - middle class. KW - mixed race. KW - new woman. KW - print culture. KW - race concept. KW - racial liberals. KW - transnational activism. KW - urbanization and race. KW - woman’s era. KW - women's poetry. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86106017 AB - Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a discourse that privileged a representative ideal of brown beauty womanhood emerged as one expression of race, class, and women's status in the modern nation. This discourse on brown beauty accrued great cultural currency across the interwar years as it appeared in diverse and multiple forms. Studying artwork and photography; commercial and consumer-oriented advertising; and literature, poetry, and sociological works, this text analyzes African American print culture with a central interest in women's social history. It explores the diffuse ways that brownness impinged on socially mobile New Negro women in the urban environment during the interwar years and shows how the discourse was constructed as a self-regulating guide directed at an aspiring middle class. ER -