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Stormy weather : middle-class African American marriages between the two World Wars / Anastasia C. Curwood

Author
Curwood, Anastasia Carol, 1974-
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
From uplift to new negro marriages : changing ideals of sexuality and activism in African American marriages, 1890-1940 -- New negro husbands -- New negro wives -- The everyday challenges of upward mobility : class identity and married couples -- Love and trouble in interwar marriages.
Summary
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships should actually function in an ideal New Negro marriage. Shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of African American social history, Anastasia Curwood explores the public and private negotiations over gender relationships inside marriage that consumed upwardly mobile black Americans be.
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ISBN
9780807868386 (electronic bk.)
0807868388 (electronic bk.)
9781469603872 (electronic bk.)
146960387X (electronic bk.)
9780807834343
0807834343
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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