Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Kaplan, Carla - 2013

New York: Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013. xxxi, 505 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), map; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called 'Miss Anne,' who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s." - Publisher. CONTENTS: "A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page," The crisis; Introduction: in search of MIss Anne; Part 1. Miss Anne's world. Black and white identity politics; An erotics of race; Part 2. Choosing blackness: sex, love, and passing. Let my people go: Lillian E. Wood passes for Black; Josephine Cogdell Schuyler: "the fall of a fair confederate"; Part 3. Repudiating whiteness: politics, patronage, and primitivism. Black souls: Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black; Charlotte Osgood Mason: "mother of the primitives"; Part 4. Rewards and costs: publishing, performance, and modern rebellion. Imitation of life: Fannie Hurst's "Sensation in Harlem"; Nancy Cunard: "I speak as if I were a Negro myself"; Epilogue: "love and consequences.". 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.