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The blacker the berry... : a novel of negro life

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  • "One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry ... was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty. Emma Lou Brown's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation - not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her hometown. As a young woman, Emma travels to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma's visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions - and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive. A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry ... is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country. A new introduction by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice, highlights the timelessness of the issues of race and skin color in America."
  • "Emma Lou Morgan lives in a world of scorn and shame, not because her skin is black, but because it's too black."
  • "A source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spirit in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity. The divide between the lighter-skinned (the "dictys/dicties" in the novel) and the darker African Americans still impacts attitudes in the black community to this day."
  • ""A source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spirit in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity."--Publisher description."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
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  • "The blacker the berry : [a novel of Negro life]"
  • "The blacker the berry--"
  • "The Blacker The Berry"
  • "˜Theœ blacker the berry ... a novel of Negro life"
  • "The blacker the berry ... : a novel of Negro life"
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  • "The blacker the berry : A novel of Negro life"
  • "Più nera la mora... più dolce il frutto"
  • "The blacker the berry : a novel of negro life"@en
  • "The blacker the berry : a novel of negro life"
  • "Più nera la mora _ più dolce il frutto"@it
  • "Blacker the berry : a novel of negro life"
  • "Blacker the berry"@en
  • "The blacker the berry. A novel of Negro life"
  • "The blacker the berry : a novel of Negro life"
  • "The blacker the berry"@en
  • "The blacker the berry"
  • "The blacker the berry a novel of Negro life"@en
  • "Blacker the Berry"@en
  • "The blacker the berry : a novel of negro life. With an introd. by Therman B. O'Daniel"
  • "The blacker the berry a novel of negro life"@en
  • "The blacker the berry; a novel of Negro life"

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