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The Brownies' Book: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children

The Brownies' Book: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children

Schäffer, Christina
Herget, Winfried

Hardcover

Series: Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, Book 60

English as a Second LanguageLiterary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 3631636903
ISBN13: 9783631636909
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Aug 6 2012
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
'The Brownies' Book: ' Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America's first magazine for young African-Americans. Published by W.E.B. Du Bois in cooperation with Jessie Fauset and Augustus Granville Dill, the monthly hoped to foster a new African-American identity by (re)connecting the children of the sun with Africa, by turning them into proud Americans, and by educating them to be global citizens. The editors turned the crow into a positive symbol of blackness and provided photographs which proved that black is beautiful to increase the self-esteem of black youths. The magazine was a harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and served as a creative outlet for many African-American writers and artists, among them many women.

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