In one of her poems, she summarises her struggle as a black feminist in one sentence: “We have gathered / to learn to pronounce freedom.”Īccording to American writer and civil-rights activist James Weldon Johnson, the importance of W.E.B. In her poems, Parker declares herself indebted to important black thinkers like Angela Davis and W.E.B.
On the back cover of her recent collection of poems Magical Negro (2019) her work is dubbed an “archive of Black everydayness”, “a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief”. The young poet Morgan Parker (1987) focusses on the experience of black women in the United States. All works in the list below are available in the UBL catalogue, follow the links to find the books directly. We selected several works from the UBL collections that are part of this longstanding tradition, providing an overview of the role marginalization and institutional racism have played and play in American society. Black American authors have been writing about their experiences in American society for centuries.
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