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What kinds of prejudice did Wallace Thurman examine in The Blacker the Berry?
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Harlem Renaissance
Dust jacket designed by the Mexican illustrator and writer Miguel Covarrubias for Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues (1926), a book of experimental poetry.
In his 1929 novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, author Wallace Henry Thurman examined the issue of color prejudice specifically within the Black community. This internal discrimination, often based on skin tone, was a central theme in his work, which sought to address social dynamics that were frequently overlooked in broader discussions of racial struggle during the Harlem Renaissance.1