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Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Black Internationalist Feminism
2011
Overview
Soon after arriving in Harlem, Lorraine Hansberry began writing for Paul Robeson’s anti-imperialist and anticapitalist newspaper Freedom. With offices in the same building as the Council on African Affairs, the most visible anticolonial organization in the first years after World War II, Freedom put Hansberry in the midst of a vibrant Black Left network that included Robeson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Louis Burnham, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and Alice Childress.¹ For Freedom, Hansberry covered the outrage of African and Asian attendees at a World Assembly of Youth convention marred by paternalism; the trip to Washington, D.C., the Sojourners for
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
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ISBN
9780252036507, 0252036506
