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In the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and create opportunities for racial advancement. In Prove It On Me, Erin D. Chapman explores the gender and sexual politics of this modern racial ethos and reveals the constraining and exploitative underside of the New Negro era's vaunted liberation and opportunities. Chapman's cultural history documents the effects on black women of the intersection of primitivism, New Negro patriarchal aspirations, and the early twentieth-century consumer culture. As U.S. society invested in the New Negroes, turning their expressions and race politics into entertaining commodities in a sexualized, primitivist popular culture, the New Negroes invested in the idea of black womanhood as a pillar of stability against the unsettling forces of myriad social and racial transformations. And both groups used black women's bodies and identities to

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Prove It On Me
• Subtitle: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s
• Author: Erin Chapman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780199758319
• ISBN: 019975831X
• ID: 04535685
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 162 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2012

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