LEADER 04088nam 2200673 450 001 9910792835603321 005 20220823173555.0 010 $a0-252-09957-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000001169722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4843903 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724029 035 $a(OCoLC)965754222 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57503 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001169722 100 $a20161203h20172017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aColored no more$b[electronic resource] $ereinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C. /$fTreva B. Lindsey 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aUrbana, IL :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (159 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aWomen, gender, and sexuality in American history 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-252-08251-6 311 $a0-252-04102-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aClimbing 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. 330 $a"This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and collective identity inhabited by African American women seeking to transform themselves and their communities through demanding autonomy and equality for African American women. The New Negro woman invested in upending racial, gender, and class inequality and included race women, blues women, playwrights, domestics, teachers, mothers, sex workers, policy workers, beauticians, fortune tellers, suffragists, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. From these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces comes an urban, cultural history of the early twentieth century struggles for freedom and equality that marked the New Negro era in the nation's capital. Washington provided a unique space in which such a vision of equality could emerge and sustain. In the face of the continued pernicious effects of Jim Crow racism and perpetual and institutional racism and sexism, Lindsey demonstrates how African American women in Washington made significant strides towards a more equal and dynamic urban center. Witnessing the possibility of social and political change empowered New Negro women of Washington to struggle for the kind of city, nation, and world they envisioned in political, social, and cultural ways."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aWomen, gender, and sexuality in American history. 606 $aAfrican American women$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory 606 $aWomen, Black 606 $aRace identity 606 $aAfrican American women$xSocial life and customs 606 $aAfrican American women$xPolitical activity 606 $aWomen$xSuffrage 606 $aSalons 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial life and customs 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xPolitics and government 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American women$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen, Black 615 0$aRace identity. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xPolitical activity. 615 0$aWomen$xSuffrage. 615 0$aSalons. 676 $a305.48/8960730753 700 $aLindsey$b Treva B.$f1983-$01581872 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792835603321 996 $aColored no more$93863759 997 $aUNINA