The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. Technology, science, and inventions had rapidly progressed during the 20th century, said more so than any other century. This specific decade marked the booming of the modern mass-production, mass-consumption economy, which delivered an abundance of profits to investors while also raising the living standard of the urban middle- and working-class. This century relates to the text “Of One Blood” because this specific text was the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. The author is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the beginning of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much glorified Harlem Renaissance. Even though the book was not written in the twenties, this is an era that seemed to have much effect on her as a literary figure. The themes of Mass Culture, Consumer Culture and Conservative Culture were present in the text as well as in the “Roaring Twenties.”

 

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