Blacker the Berry... by Thurman, Wallace
Blacker the Berry... by Thurman, Wallace

Blacker the Berry...

In The Blacker the Berry..., a classic yet provocative novel written during the Harlem Renaissance, a young...
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Author: Wallace Thurman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Blacker the Berry... by Thurman, Wallace

Blacker the Berry...

$55.99 $29.23
Blacker the Berry... by Thurman, Wallace

Blacker the Berry...

$55.99 $29.23
Author: Wallace Thurman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In The Blacker the Berry..., a classic yet provocative novel written during the Harlem Renaissance, a young woman must reckon with colorism in the Black community as she navigates 1920s New York City.

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 recreates 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.

Author: Wallace Thurman
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/02/1996
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780684815800

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.4
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 14806 / Blacker the Berry

About the Author
Wallace Thurman is the author of Harlem, a play, and two other novels, Infants of the Spring and Interne. He died in 1934
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