Picture celebrated authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker getting together with famed playwright and actress Ntozake Shange at the poet and essayist June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to be fed Jamaican gumbo and champagne while talking about their work
.Now imagine Prof. Audre Lorde, critically acclaimed writers Paule Marshall & Margo Jefferson, and other Black feminists joining in! This "Sisterhood" was a cohort of some of the brightest minds focused on liberation through the lens of Black feminism, which included space for queer identity, that transformed American writing and cultural institutions. "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" is the latest book from Dr. Courtney Thorsson, Associate Professor of African American literature at the University of Oregon. She joins host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her new work, published by Columbia University Press.