One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry ...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community.
He died in 1934..
About the Author: Wallace Thurman is the author of Harlem, a play, and two other novels, Infants of the Spring and Interne.
A new introduction by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice, highlights the timelessness of the issues of race and skin color in America.
A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry ...is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country.
Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma\'s visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions -- and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive.
As a young woman, Emma travels to New York\'s Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s.
Emma Lou Brown\'s dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation -- not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her home-town.
This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty.
One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry ...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community
