The blacker the berry--

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The blacker the berry--

1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
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  • 2 Currently reading

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 home-town. 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.

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English
Pages
221

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La mora più nera
2021, Il Gulliver
Paperback
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The blacker the berry
2008, Dover Publications
in English
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Blacker the Berry
November 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: The Blacker The Berry (Black Classics)
The Blacker The Berry (Black Classics)
September 25, 1996, The X Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The blacker the berry--
The blacker the berry--
1996, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English - 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
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The blacker the berry: a novel of Negro life.
1972, AMS Press
in English
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The blacker the berry ...: A novel of Negro life.
1970, Collier Books
in English
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The blacker the berry.
1969, Arno Press
in English
Cover of: The blacker the berry
The blacker the berry: a novel of Negro life
1929, The Macaulay Company
in English

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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3539.H957 B53 1996, PS3539.H957B53 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
221 p. ;
Number of pages
221

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL806409M
Internet Archive
blackerberry0000thur
ISBN 10
068481580X
LCCN
95043010
Library Thing
76568
Goodreads
868440

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