Wallace Thurman

A groundbreaking, yet controversial novel of the Harlem Renaissance about a young, dark-skinned Black woman reckoning with colourism as she navigates 1920s Harlem, reissued and repackaged for the Herald Classics line. Emma Lou Morgan's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation not only to herself but also to her lighter-skinned family members and the white community of her...