Brown beauty: color, sex, and race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II

Introduction

Brown beginnings : imaging the new Negro woman in 1920s literary print culture

Beautiful brown skin : advertising new Negro womanhood

"Of the brown-skin type" : Madonnas, mulattas, and modern women in literary print culture

To a brown girl : the poetic discourse of brown

Browning the Dark princess : Asian Indian embodiment of new Negro womanhood

Sociological discourses on color, class, and gender, from Depression to World War II

Epilogue.