Nelson George, Samuel R. Delany, Major Jackson and others tell us about some of their favorite works of literature.
“... I do know that the work of black women writers presents a ferocious challenge to old sexist perceptions; as [the author and scholar Farah] Griffin says, ‘the difference between this moment and others is that, in the past, to be a black writer was to be a man.’” Here, Nelson George, Samuel R. Delany, Major Jackson tell us about their favorite works of literature by black female Americans.
