Lorraine Hansberry and the Black Radical Tradition

Lorraine Hansberry and the Black Radical Tradition - AAIHS

The Black radical tradition is a liberatory project shaped by distinctly African modes of resistance and revolution that developed out of the conditions of ...

The Good of All: Lorraine Hansberry's radical imagination

Hansberry was often willing to criticize black elites in her pursuit of a more radical and egalitarian society, one that was socialist and feminist.

Lorraine Hansberry: the Organizer - AAIHS

... Radical Vision, I wished I had more to write about Lorraine Hansberry's relationship with Alice Childress. Two Black radical women ...

Lorraine Hansberry: Gifted, Radical, Inspirational

Hansberry was a Black, queer woman who used her art to express her radical vision for America and the world.

The Theater World Has Never Understood Lorraine Hansberry

At 29, Hansberry was already a practicing journalist in the Black radical tradition, the prize pupil of W. E. B. Du Bois. She documented the ...

Black Radicalism | Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust

“Somewhat Like War”: The Aesthetics of Segregations, Black Liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun.” In Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim ...

Exploring the Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry with ...

Her parents were very much traditional mainstream civil rights bourgeois black people, and she has a very different set of politics: she's ...

Lorraine Hansberry - National Women's History Museum

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun.

Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition - JSTOR Daily

The Black radical tradition is a rich and vibrant tapestry woven by the blood, sweat, and tears of so many Black people.

Lorraine Hansberry Was an Unapologetic Radical - Jacobin

Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her classic play A Raisin in the Sun. But she was also a committed radical who insisted that black workers must be at the ...

Beyond the Raisin: The Incredible Brief Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Leticia: Yeah, I just think she embodies a Black feminist politics to me. She was a radical before her time and a lot of people don't know that ...

Lorraine Hansberry: Radiant, Radical—And More Than 'Raisin'

It begins with her childhood as part of the politically active black elite on Chicago's South Side. Perry examines Hansberry's relationship with ...

Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry

A play based on Charles W. Chesnutt's “Marrow of Tradition” shows the writer of “A Raisin in the Sun” attuned to the history of white violence.

Lorraine Hansberry: black revolution and white backlash - LinkedIn

Hansberry's views on race were deeply rooted in her childhood experiences. You can read her warm memories of Chicago's South Side in an essay ...

Lorraine Hansberry and the Long Black Freedom Struggle

“She stood in the collective tradition of the Black artist, but also in a family tradition of the Black activist and public servant.” (4) Family ...

Lorraine Hansberry's Legacy of Radical Activism Beyond Broadway

interrogation of traditional gender norms” is “integral to the play's anti-colonial nationalism” (Black Internationalist. Feminism 75, 79). Although he is not ...

A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs Colbert ...

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021, 273 pp. Taking Black ...

The Lives and Works of Claudia Jones and Lorraine Hansberry

Freedom became the most important space for the growth of Black leftist feminism, as it featured stories of radical female leaders throughout the world, ...

The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

To this Soyica Diggs Colbert, a professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University, adds her contribution with “ ...

Tricia Rose: Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and the 'Illegible ...

In a recent conversation about Black radical artist and thinkers, Gwendolyn Brooks and Lorraine Hansberry, on their weekly program, The ...