One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman, Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controvertial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation struggles in Africa and the socialist struggles in Maoist China. Through careful analysis and use of personal correspondence, interviews, and previously unexamined documents, Horne explores her work as a Harlem Renaissance playwright, biographer, composer, teacher, novelist, Left political activist, advisor and inspiration, who was a powerful historical actor.
- ISBN10 0814736157
- ISBN13 9780814736159
- Publish Date 1 September 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 363
- Language English