Miss Anne in Harlem : the white women of the Black Renaissance

Miss Anne in Harlem : the white women of the Black Renaissance / Carla Kaplan.

Author/creator	Kaplan, Carla author.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
Copyright Notice	©2013
Description	xxxi, 505 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Harlem Renaissance--History. Women, White--New York (State) --New York --Biography. African American intellectuals--New York (State) --New York --Biography. Women, White--New York (State) --New York --Intellectual life --20th century. African Americans--New York (State) --New York --Intellectual life --20th century. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life --20th century.

Portion of title	White women of the Black Renaissance
Contents	"A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page," The crisis -- g Introduction. In search of MIss Anne -- Part 1. Miss Anne's world. Black and white identity politics -- An erotics of race -- Part 2. Choosing blackness : sex, love, and passing. Let my people go : Lillian E. Wood passes for Black -- Josephine Cogdell Schuyler : "the fall of a fair confederate" -- Part 3. Repudiating whiteness : politics, patronage, and primitivism. Black souls : Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black -- Charlotte Osgood Mason : "mother of the primitives" -- Part 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."
Abstract	This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-478) and index.
ISBN	9780060882389
ISBN	0060882387
ISBN	9780060882372
ISBN	0060882379

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	NX512.3.A35 K37 2013	✔ Available	Place Hold