The Blacker the Berry (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Thurman
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satirical realism
- Time of Work: 1920’s, during the Harlem Renaissance
- Setting: Boise, Idaho; Los Angeles, California; and Harlem, New York
- Principal Characters: Emma Lou Morgan, Jane Lightfoot Morgan, Hazel Mason, John, Alva, Geraldine, Gwendolyn Johnson
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Satire
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Love or romance, Race, New York City, Prejudices or antipathies, Harlem Renaissance, 1920’s, California, Los Angeles, Polygamy or bigamy, West, U.S.
- Locales: Harlem, NY, Boise, ID, Los Angeles, CA
The Novel
The Blacker the Berry is divided into five sections. Although they vary to some degree in length and differ greatly as to the length of time that is covered, each of these sections ends with a decision or a revelation on the part of the protagonist, Emma Lou Morgan.
In the first section of The Blacker the Berry, entitled “Emma Lou,” the protagonist, eighteen-year-old Emma Lou Morgan, is shown at her high school graduation in Boise, Idaho, the only black face in a sea of white ones. Aware not only of her difference from her classmates but also,...
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