Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 from uplift to new negro marriages 13 Changing Ideals of Sexuality and Activism in African American Marriages, 1890–1940 2 new negro husbands 53 3 new negro wives 83 4 the everyday challenges of upward mobility 109 Class Identity and Married Couples 5 love and trouble in interwar marriages 139 Epilogue 159 Notes 165 Bibliography 185 Index 195 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations Harlem Renaissance men, 1924 61 Hilda Wilkinson Brown, In the House of the Mother 67 Hilda Wilkinson Brown, In the House of the Father 69 E. Franklin Frazier and Marie Brown Frazier, later in life 112 Sarah Thomas Curwood, ca. 1940 125 James Lawrence Curwood, ca. 1940 130 Robert and Katherine Flippin, 1939 144 This page intentionally left blank ...