Noliwe Rooks is the associate director of African American Studies and a lecturer in history at Princeton University.
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Scattered Pages: Magazines Sex, and the Culture of Migration
1
(24)
The African American Press in Historical Context
6
(4)
Shrouded in Sex: Writing Back to History
10
(6)
The Cult of Representation: ``New Negro'' Ladies
16
(3)
The New Woman: Consumerism and White Women's Magazines
19
(2)
The Migration Journals
21
(4)
Refashioning Rape: Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion
25
(22)
The Magazine
28
(4)
Julia Ringwood Costen: A Life in Context
32
(4)
Situating Silence: Race, Rape, and Memory
36
(3)
Black Bodies in the Key of White: The Accident of Color
39
(5)
Accounting for the Past
44
(3)
To Make a Lady Black and Bid Her Sing: Clothes, Class, and Color
47
(18)
Representing Fashion, Fashioning Representation
49
(2)
Showing and Proving That They Were Ladies
51
(5)
Advertising Ladyhood
56
(4)
White Fashion, Black Readers
60
(3)
Fashioning Race: The Twentieth Century
63
(2)
``Colored Faces Looking Out of Fashion Plates. Well!'': Twentieth-Century Fashion, Migration, and Urbanization
65
(24)
Half-Century Magazine
68
(6)
The Migration of Fashion
74
(4)
The Burden of Dress
78
(6)
What They Are Wearing
84
(3)
The Status of Fashion
87
(2)
No Place Like Home: Domesticity, Domestic Work, and Consumerism
89
(24)
Home and Turn-of-the-Century American Culture in Black and White
91
(10)
Gender, Generation, and Domestic Work
101
(7)
From Character to Consumption
108
(5)
Urban Confessions and Tan Fantasies: The Commodification of Marriage and Sexual Desire in African American Magazine Fiction
113
(27)
Marriage, Urban Space, and Turn-of-the-Century Writing
115
(5)
Tan Confessions
120
(4)
Consuming Fantasies in Black and Tan
124
(7)
Ebony Dreams: Buying Citizenship, Selling Race
131
(3)
Marketing Matrimony, Selling Consumption
134
(6)
But Is It Black and Female?: Essence, O, and American Magazine Publishing
140
(11)
Essence Magazine
142
(6)
O, the Oprah Magazine
148
(3)
Notes
151
(12)
Selected Bibliography
163
(6)
Index
169
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