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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Candice J

Titel

Presenting, Performing, and Rejecting Respectability: Black Women’s Critiques of the New Negro Ideology in the Harlem Renaissance

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This thesis is a hybrid public history project that includes a critical paper and a website. Both sections of the thesis analyze Black women’s literary work in the early twentieth century. The main historical actors discussed within the text are Elise Johnson McDougald, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Zora Neale Hurston. The connecting theme between these texts is the influence of the New Negro era, popularly known as the Harlem Renaissance. This project addresses the major topics of Black feminist politics and Black cultural production. On a smaller scale, it analyzes other topics including colorism, miscegenation, comedy, and Black American English. The website portion of the project, which can be found at https://blacklithistory.wixsite.com/thesis, presents primary and secondary sources to the public for education purposes. The website is targeted toward high school students and provides lesson plan resources for high school educators. This public history project merges literary and historical analysis to create an in-depth study of Black women’s lived experiences during the early twentieth century in the United States.