{"title":"Wallace Thurman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-blacker-the-berry-paperback","title":"The Blacker the Berry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Blacker the Berry\" is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. She is born and raised by her single mother in the predominantly white community of Boise, Idaho. She often feels like an outsider, even among her family, as they are lighter skinned than she, and believes that her dark skin will keep her from marrying and having an easy life. Emma wants a better life for herself and goes to college at the University of Southern California, hopeful she will find people who will accept her. While she finds a larger black community at college, she continues to feel like an outsider and is often made to feel inferior and unwanted due to her darker skin. Emma Lou's search for love and acceptance takes her to New York and the vibrant black community of Harlem after college, but she continues to face prejudice and rejection in a world she thought would be more accepting of her. Critically acclaimed, \"The Blacker the Berry\" remains an unflinching and thought-provoking examination of race, prejudice, and self-acceptance. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101540716767,"sku":"9781420969467","price":12.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YjhuSi9RUGZ1YVZ4dE5OSG9HcWRtQT09.webp?v=1781071686"},{"product_id":"the-blacker-the-berry-paperback-1","title":"The Blacker the Berry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmma Lou was born black. Too black for her own comfort and that of her social-climbing wannabe family. Resented by those closest to her, she runs from her small hometown to Los Angeles and then to Harlem of the 1920's, seeking her identity and an escape from the pressures of the black community. She drifts from one loveless relationship to another in the search for herself and a place in a society where prejudice towards her comes not only from whites, but from her own race \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel, associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is considered groundbreaking for its exploration of colorism and racial discrimination within the black community, where lighter skin was often favored, especially for women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101638562015,"sku":"9781774641293","price":9.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZERWek5POXJVNGpOZHAvUE5Ea2p1UT09.webp?v=1781071873"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/wallace-thurman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}