Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
30.05.2026
Verlag
Waking Lion PressSeitenzahl
44 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
528 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781434118141
The Blacker the Berry, Wallace Thurman's debut novel, follows the life of Emma Lou, a dark-skinned young woman from Boise, as she graduates high school and enters adult life as a college student. After being the target of colorist prejudice from her fellow African-American students at the University of Southern California, Emma Lou decides to drop out and move to Harlem-where she's swept into a torrid love affair that only deepens her sense of color-consciousness.
Written and set during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry was one of the first African-American novels to address the themes of colorism and homosexuality. It remains one of the canonical novels of the Harlem Renaissance.
Perfect for readers who appreciate powerful explorations of identity and belonging within African American literature, this groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel tackles the painful realities of colorism with unflinching honesty. Thurman's bold examination of intraracial prejudice and self-acceptance remains strikingly relevant, making this essential reading for anyone interested in the complexities of race, beauty standards, and finding one's place in the world.
The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)
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