Real Negro Girl - Fredi Washington and the New Negro Renaissance

A Real Negro Girl explores the life and career of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington. Although Washington is largely unknown today, during the early decades of the twentieth century, she was a movie star who was a household name in the black community and well-known in mainstream America and abroad.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Roots of the New Negro Renaissance


• Chapter 2: Dancing All Day: Reading Blackface and Black Bodies


• Chapter 3: Boxers, Blacks, and a Real Negro Girl: White Expectations and Imagined Conceptions of Authentic Blackness


• Chapter 4: Race, Place, and Miscegenation: Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life


• Chapter 5: Beyond the Footlights: New Negro Performing Artists and More Tangible Forms of Activism


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Select Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Laurie A. Woodard is an assistant professor of history at The City College of New York. She began her professional life as a dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem before pursuing an academic career.

Summary

A Real Negro Girl explores the life and career of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington. Although Washington is largely unknown today, during the early decades of the twentieth century, she was a movie star who was a household name in the black community and well-known in mainstream America and abroad.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie A. Woodard, Laurie A. (Assistant Professor of History Woodard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.04.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780197626214
• ISBN: 978-0-19-762621-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; USA, Dance, Human Rights, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Other performing arts, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: arts and entertainment, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people