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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 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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Blacker the Berry
November 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush
School & Library Binding
in English
0613377192 9780613377195
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The Blacker The Berry (Black Classics)
September 25, 1996, The X Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
1874509131 9781874509134
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1996, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English
- 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
068481580X 9780684815800
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The blacker the berry ...: A novel of Negro life.
1970, Collier Books
in English
0020547501 9780020547501
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