{"product_id":"colored-no-more-9780252082511","title":"Colored No More","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eHome to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. \u003ci\u003eColored No More\u003c\/i\u003e traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the nation''s capital a more equal and dynamic urban center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American women''s spaces, Lindsey excavates a multifaceted urban and cultural history of struggle toward a vision of equality that could emerge and sustain itself. Upward mobility to equal citizenship for African American women encompassed challenging racial, gender, class, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 \u003cbr\u003e \"Treva Lindsey, in \u003ci\u003eColored No More\u003c\/i\u003e, is as bold as the women about whom she writes. Fresh research, illuminated by feminist theory, reveals how 'New Negro Womanhood' became a framework through which African American women developed modern identities. The politics of respectability confront the politics of pleasure in this outstanding study.\"--Martha S. Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eColored No More\u003c\/i\u003e provokes important questions for African American historiography and should inform historians' telling of urban black history after the Civil War. . . . Lindsey is precise and explicit in her interpretation of sources but seems also to recognize the present-day consequences of that interpretation.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Review [H-SHGAPE]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lindsey's \u003ci\u003eColored No More\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in changing the way we see African American women in the nation's capital from the 1890s through the 1920s. She innovatively and provocatively brings together histories of black women in higher education, beauty culture, the suffrage movement, and literary salons to prove that Washington was a site of New Negro ideology.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to African American women's history that demonstrates urban black women's important political work. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lindsay successfully demonstrates that New Negro womanhood was a complex and capacious category accommodating a range of social, political, and sexual beliefs. . . . \u003ci\u003eColored No More\u003c\/i\u003e is essential to the historiography of Washington, D.C.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lindsey’s brilliantly researched book adds to black culture by mapping out the intersections of various identities of African-American women who shaped black life on a local and national scale.\"--\u003ci\u003eVibe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lindsey's book is an ambitious and creative undertaking of documenting African American women's activism in the nation's capital.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An insightful book theoretically framed around ideas of 'Colored' and New Negro Womanhood. Lindsey demonstrates how Black women in Washington, D.C., labored and managed under the strains of Jim and Jane Crow, navigating structural disadvantages and persistent sexist exclusion in the nation's capital. Lindsey makes abundantly clear that the diverse efforts of Black Washingtonian women, from political organizing to cultural productions, pushed the boundaries of culturally accepted norms and laid a foundation for latter liberationist movements led by Black women within their communities both locally and nationally.\"--Randal Maurice Jelks, author of \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"A timely and important book that centers black women in the New Negro era--a long overdue addition to the history and historiography.\"--Danielle L. McGuire, author of \u003ci\u003eAt the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864291848535,"sku":"9780252082511","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252082511.jpg?v=1722271258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colored-no-more-9780252082511","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}