Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
by:
Carla Kaplan (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060882372 (0060882379)
Publish date: September 2nd 2014
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Wow. No wonder we still make a mess of things when we talk about race (and no wonder we try to avoid it at all costs). It's been messy for a long time, and the 1920s and 1930s was an early period in which we started developing the language of race in a prominent movement of artists, not just activ...
This history and group biography of several of the strong minded but sometimes misguided white women who inserted themselves into the Harlem Renaissance is a fascinating look at the rich culture of the time, black and white. Though the 1920's is thought of as an era of freethinking flappers, views o...