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This article conducts a comparative analysis of two iconic female figures of the 1920s—the white Flapper and the Black New Negro Woman. It argues that these archetypes represented divergent, often conflicting, responses to the crises and opportunities of modern American womanhood, shaped by the distinct political and social imperatives of their racial groups. While the Flapper has been mythologized as the quintessential symbol of female liberation through consumerism, sexual expressiveness, and hedonistic rebellion, the New Negro Woman was constructed as a figure of racial uplift through education, moral rectitude, and political advocacy. This article deconstructs these archetypes through an intersectional…