Bøker av Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Captures the scope of the author's long life and career, this is an essential book for both fans of West's fiction and students of race, class, and American women's lives. Dorothy West's Paradise offers an intimate biography of an important author and a privileged glimpse into the society that shaped her work.

Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. This title investigates the visual and literary images of black femininity that occurred between the two world wars. It illuminates the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance.