04366nam 2200685 450 991046592720332120210323083337.00-252-09957-5(CKB)3710000001169722(MiAaPQ)EBC4843903(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724029(OCoLC)965754222(MdBmJHUP)muse57503(EXLCZ)99371000000116972220161203h20172017 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierColored no more reinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C. /Treva B. LindseySecond edition.Urbana, IL :University of Illinois Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (159 pages) illustrationsWomen, gender, and sexuality in American historyPreviously issued in print: 2017.0-252-08251-6 0-252-04102-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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."This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and collective identity inhabited by African American women seeking to transform themselves and their communities through demanding autonomy and equality for African American women. The New Negro woman invested in upending racial, gender, and class inequality and included race women, blues women, playwrights, domestics, teachers, mothers, sex workers, policy workers, beauticians, fortune tellers, suffragists, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. From these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces comes an urban, cultural history of the early twentieth century struggles for freedom and equality that marked the New Negro era in the nation's capital. Washington provided a unique space in which such a vision of equality could emerge and sustain. In the face of the continued pernicious effects of Jim Crow racism and perpetual and institutional racism and sexism, Lindsey demonstrates how African American women in Washington made significant strides towards a more equal and dynamic urban center. Witnessing the possibility of social and political change empowered New Negro women of Washington to struggle for the kind of city, nation, and world they envisioned in political, social, and cultural ways."--Provided by publisher.Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.African American womenWashington (D.C.)HistoryWomen, BlackRace identityAfrican American womenWashington (D.C.)Social life and customsAfrican American womenPolitical activityWashington (D.C.)History20th centuryWomenSuffrageWashington (D.C.)History20th centuryWomenWashington (D.C.)HistorySalonsWashington (D.C.)History20th centuryWashington (D.C.)Social life and customs20th centuryWashington (D.C.)Politics and government20th centuryWashington (D.C.)Intellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.African American womenHistory.Women, BlackRace identity.African American womenSocial life and customs.African American womenPolitical activityHistoryWomenSuffrageHistoryWomenHistory.SalonsHistory305.48/8960730753Lindsey Treva B.1983-869890MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465927203321Colored no more1942193UNINA