Exalting Negro Womanhood: Black Women Poets and Harlem Renaissance Magazines

• Published in: Humanities (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 4; p. 101
• Main Author: Mix, Deborah M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2022
• Subjects: African American literature; African Americans; Beauty; Harlem Renaissance; periodical studies; Periodicals; Personal appearance; Poetry; Poets; Racism; Visual culture; Women; Womens literature; United States > US

New Negro magazines such as The Messenger, Opportunity, and The Crisis regularly featured photographs and short descriptions of Black women designed to highlight their role as both moral centers and aspirational figures. These images tended to imply that the ideal New Negro woman would challenge rac...