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Black Beauty: "Brown Skin" Aesthetics"

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Waring Cuney, "No Images" (1927)
  2. Countee Cullen, "The Ballad of the Brown Girl" (1927)
  3. Countee Cullen, "Brown Boy to Brown Girl (Remembrance on a hill) (For Yolanda)" (1924)
  4. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)
  5. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "To a Dark Girl" (1927)
  6. Langston Hughes, "When Sue Wears Red" (1920/1923)
  7. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)" (1925)
  8. Countee Cullen, "A Brown Girl Dead" (1925)
  9. Mae V. Cowdery (Mae Cowdery), "Longings" (1927)
  10. Edward S. Silvera , "Song to a Dark Girl" (1927)
  11. Annette Browne, "Little Brown Boy" (1921)
  12. Frankie Carter De Berry, "A Study in Brown" (1917)
  13. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  14. Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)" (1922)
  15. Anita Scott Coleman, "The Colorist" (1925)
  16. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Advice" (1927)