“A lot of my unformed feelings were identified and smoked out, and I am much the better for it.”įrances Araujo recommended Countee Cullen, a Harlem Renaissance poet, whose work exposed her to race for the first time. “He was so forthright in his concrete attempts to make amends for his family’s slave-trading history,” wrote Phoebe Grigg of San Francisco. In recent weeks, you have sent me some worthy recommendations as well.Įdward Ball’s “Slaves in the Family,” about the author’s slave-owner ancestors, appeared in multiple letters. To mitigate this tension, the men in the piece were asked to recommend their favorite black American female author. What’s interesting about the feature is how it uses America’s current obsession with black male authors to raise questions about the visibility of their female peers. The bevy of black male writers pictured above are celebrated in a new cover story by T Magazine. The year has nearly come to an end, which means it’s a good time for reflection and to catch up on some reading.
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