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  • Negro life in New York’s Harlem A lively picture of a popular and interesting section
    Wallace Thurman
    Negro Life in New York’s Harlem by Wallace Thurman offers a vivid, firsthand portrait of Harlem during the early twentieth century, capturing the vibrancy, culture, and social dynamics of one of America’s most iconic African American neighborhoods. Thurman explores the music, art, literature, and everyday life that shaped Harlem as a center of creativity, social change, and com...
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    7,17 €

  • Negro life in New York’s Harlem A lively picture of a popular and interesting section
    Wallace Thurman
    Negro Life in New York’s Harlem by Wallace Thurman provides an engaging and vivid portrait of Harlem during the early 20th century, capturing the energy, culture, and daily life of one of America’s most dynamic African American communities. First published in 1926, the book examines Harlem as the epicenter of the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting its social, cultural, and artist...
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    7,17 €

  • The Blacker the Berry
    Wallace Thurman
    A daring voice of the Harlem Renaissance challenges beauty, prejudice, and belonging.In The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman delivers a bold, unflinching portrait of Emma Lou Morgan, a young Black woman whose deep complexion makes her the target of colorism-within both white society and her own community. From her small-town beginnings in Idaho to the electrifying stre...
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    16,44 €

  • Negro Life in New York’s Harlem
    Wallace Thurman
    'Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section' by Wallace Thurman offers a compelling glimpse into the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. This meticulously prepared print republication provides invaluable insight into the social conditions and vibrant urban life experienced by African Americans in New York City during a pivotal era.Explor...
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    15,91 €

  • Infants of the Spring
    Wallace Thurman
    Published to mixed reception, Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring is a controversial take on the realities of Black life in the shadow of a cultural boom. '’...you’re right. I was frightened. After all I had never seen a Negro before in my life, that is, not over two or three, and they were only dim, passing shadows with no immediate reality. New York itself was alarming e...
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    11,08 €

  • The Blacker the Berry (Large Print Edition)
    Wallace Thurman
    LARGE PRINT EDITION. Mirroring Nella Larsen’s Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman. A Black boy could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but sorrow and disappointment.Emma Lou was born black. Abandoned by her father at birth, she is subjected to skin bleaching by her mother, hoping to make her child m...
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  • The Blacker the Berry
    Wallace Thurman
    'The Blacker the Berry' is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. She is born and raised by her single mother in the predominantly white community of Boise, Idaho. She often feels like an outsider, even among her family, as they are lighter skinn...
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    14,15 €

  • Infants of the Spring
    Wallace Thurman
    In this rambunctious satire, Wallace Thurman, one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, takes his fellow artists and critics to task. The setting is a buzzing apartment building in 1930s Harlem, where avatars for the likes of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and Thurman himself come together to push past old boundaries and test out new ideas. But...
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    15,82 €

  • The Blacker the Berry
    Wallace Thurman
    Mirroring Nella Larsen’s Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman.A Black boy could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but sorrow and disappointment.Emma Lou was born black. Abandoned by her father at birth, she is subjected to skin bleaching by her mother, hoping to make her child more desirable. Learning...
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    7,53 €

  • The Blacker the Berry
    Thurman Wallace / Wallace Thurman
    Originally published in 1929, “The Blacker the Berry” is a novel by American novelist Wallace Henry Thurman (1902–1934). An active writer during the Harlem Renaissance, he produced essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of numerous newspapers and journals. His best-known work, “The Blacker the Berry”, represents a detailed exploration of the discrimination within the ...
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    22,38 €

  • Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists
    Wallace Thurman
    2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition.  Illustrated Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fire!! was an African-American literary magazine published in New York City in 1926 during the Harlem Renaissance. The publication was started by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, G...
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    13,64 €

  • The Blacker the Berry
    Wallace Thurman
    Emma Lou was born black. Too black for her own comfort and that of her social-climbing wannabe family. Resented by those closest to her, she runs from her small hometown to Los Angeles and then to Harlem of the 1920’s, seeking her identity and an escape from the pressures of the black community. She drifts from one loveless relationship to another in the search for herself and ...
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  • Infants of the Spring
    Wallace Thurman
    2020 Reprint of the 1932 Edition.  Thurman is perhaps best known for this novel, which is a satire of what he believed were the overrated creative figures of the Harlem scene. Some reviewers welcomed Thurman’s bold insight, while others vilified him as a racial traitor. A thinly disguised memoir of Thurman's own experiences in the 1920s. "[This novel] centers on the larger-...
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    13,84 €

  • The Blacker the Berry
    Wallace Thurman
    “The Blacker the Berry” is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. She is born and raised by her single mother in the predominantly white community of Boise, Idaho. She often feels like an outsider, even among her family, as they are lighter skinn...
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    10,03 €

  • The Blacker the Berry
    Wallace Thurman
    2015 Reprint of 1929 Edition. This novel, associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is considered groundbreaking for its exploration of colorism and racial discrimination within the black community, where lighter skin was often favored, especially for women. The novel tells the story of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. It begins in Boise, Idaho and follows ...
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    11,10 €

  • The Blacker the Berry. . .
    Wallace Thurman
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    13,74 €