Description: A groundbreaking collection of essays and poetry by a Black lesbian feminist. Anita Cornwell's Black Lesbian in White America and Other Writings fearlessly explores the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in 20th-century America. This collection exposes the realities of heteropatriarchy, misogyny, racism, and white supremacy through a Black lesbian lens.
This reprint includes Cornwell's classic essays, a revelatory interview with Audre Lorde, and previously unpublished poetry. Scholar Briona Simone Jones provides an insightful introduction. Discover the power of Black lesbian voices as Cornwell chronicles her battles against oppression while attending to themes of love and familial loss.
This collection is for readers interested in Black lesbian studies, feminist theory, LGBTQ+ history, and social justice. Keywords: Black lesbian essays, Anita Cornwell writings, LGBTQ+ history, feminist theory.
Review Quotes: The first Black woman writer to publicly identify as a lesbian in print at a time when doing so was nothing short of radical. --The Philadelphia Enquirer
[An] early groundbreaking statement about what we now refer to as intersectional politics. --Marc Stein, author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Love Cornwell traverses the terrains of grief, misogynoir, patriarchy, class, imperialism, white supremacy, and antiblackness while also managing to articulate the nuances of love, desire, and freedom. --From the Foreword by Briona Simone Jones