From uplift to new negro marriages : changing ideals of sexuality and activism in African American marriages, 1890-1940 -- New negro husbands -- New negro wives -- The everyday challenges of upward mobility : class identity and married couples -- Love and trouble in interwar marriages
Summary
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships should actually function in an ideal New Negro marriage. Shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of African American social history, Anastasia Curwood explores the public and private negotiations over gender relationships inside marriage that consumed upwardly mobile black Americans be
