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The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Harper
January 2013
On Sale: January 5, 2013
544 pages
ISBN: 0060882387
EAN: 9780060882389
Hardcover
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Fiction | Historical
Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography,
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black
Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively
called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance
insiders.
The 1920s in New York City was a time of
freedom, experimentation, and passion—with Harlem at the
epicenter. White men could go uptown to see jazz and modern
dance, but women who embraced black culture too
enthusiastically could be ostracized.
Miss Anne
in Harlem focuses on six of the unconventional,
free-thinking women, some from Manhattan high society, many
Jewish, who crossed race lines and defied social conventions
to become a part of the culture and heartbeat of
Harlem.
Ethnic and gender studies professor Carla
Kaplan brings the interracial history of the Harlem
Renaissance to life with vivid prose, extensive research,
and period photographs.
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