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The Blacker the Berry

by Wallace Thurman

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1929
Pages
135
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  1. Part I, Emma Lou.

    34:50

  2. Part I, Emma Lou (cont.)

    67:18

  3. Part II, Harlem

    52:35

  4. Part III, Alva.

    28:26

  5. Part III, Alva (cont.)

    40:12

  6. Part IV, Rent Party.

    33:01

  7. Part IV, Rent Party (cont.)

    58:07

  8. Part V, Pyrrhic Victory.

    21:24

  9. Part V, Pyrrhic Victory (cont.)

    54:02

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Emma Lou Morgan is dark-skinned, and in the world Wallace Thurman draws in 1929 that fact shapes almost everything that happens to her. Raised in a Boise family fixated on lightness, she carries the wound to college in Los Angeles and then to Harlem, where she keeps discovering that prejudice about skin color runs deep inside Black society itself, not only outside it. Thurman, a leading and often caustic voice of the Harlem Renaissance, refuses easy comfort: Emma Lou's search for belonging leads through bad jobs, worse men, and a slow, hard-won measure of self-respect. It was among the first American novels to face colorism within the community head-on. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Wallace Thurman

Wallace Thurman (1902 to 1934) was an American novelist, editor, and playwright, and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Salt Lake City, he co-founded the short-lived magazine Fire!! with Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. He died of tuberculosis at thirty-two.

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First published
1929
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
135
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
James K. White