Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s
"Prove It on Meilluminates the complexities of the New Negro era by refusing to simplify the forces shaping black life in the United States...   [It] is a study of courage and conviction." --The Journal of American History"A robust cultural history...Prove It On Meis a necessary read for those interested in a deeply invested and methodologically potent cultural history of black gender and sexual politics in inter-war America... this text will become a canonical study of black women's cultural history in many years to come." --Callaloo