A Real Negro Girl explores the life and career of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington. Although Washington is largely unknown today, during the early decades of the twentieth century, she was a movie star who was a household name in the black community and well-known in mainstream America and abroad.
A Real Negro Girl explores the life and career of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington. Although Washington is largely unknown today, during the early decades of the twentieth century, she was a movie star who was a household name in the black community and well-known in mainstream America and abroad.
Laurie A. Woodard is an assistant professor of history at The City College of New York. She began her professional life as a dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem before pursuing an academic career.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Roots of the New Negro Renaissance * Chapter 2: Dancing All Day: Reading Blackface and Black Bodies * Chapter 3: Boxers, Blacks, and a Real Negro Girl: White Expectations and Imagined Conceptions of Authentic Blackness * Chapter 4: Race, Place, and Miscegenation: Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life * Chapter 5: Beyond the Footlights: New Negro Performing Artists and More Tangible Forms of Activism * Conclusion * Notes * Select Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Roots of the New Negro Renaissance * Chapter 2: Dancing All Day: Reading Blackface and Black Bodies * Chapter 3: Boxers, Blacks, and a Real Negro Girl: White Expectations and Imagined Conceptions of Authentic Blackness * Chapter 4: Race, Place, and Miscegenation: Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life * Chapter 5: Beyond the Footlights: New Negro Performing Artists and More Tangible Forms of Activism * Conclusion * Notes * Select Bibliography * Index
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