The Brownies Book: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America s first magazine for young African-Americans. Published by W.E.B. Du Bois in cooperation with Jessie Fauset and Augustus Granville Dill, the monthly hoped to foster a new African-American identity by (re)connecting -the children of the sun- with Africa, by turning them into proud Americans, and by educating them to be global citizens. The editors turned the crow into a positive symbol of blackness and provided photographs which proved that -black is...
The Brownies Book: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America s first maga...