Home Girls
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology is a collection of Black lesbian and Black feminist writing, edited by Barbara Smith. The anthology was first published in 1983 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, and was reissued by Rutgers University Press in 2000.[1]
History
The book grew out of Conditions magazine's November 1979 issue, "Conditions 5: the Black Women's Issue", originally edited by Barbara Smith and Lorraine Bethel. Conditions 5 was "the first widely distributed collection of Black feminist writing in the U.S."[2]
Contributors
- Cheryl L. Clarke
- Michelle Cliff
- Barbara Smith
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Jewelle Gomez
- June Jordan
- Alice Walker
- Audre Lorde
- Luisah Teish
- Toi Derricotte
- Chirlane McCray
and others...
See also
- Lesbianism
- Black feminism
- Womanism
- Critical social theory
- African-American literature
References
- ↑
- ↑ Smith, Barbara et al. (1983). Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, p. 1.
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