Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green, part one
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Tara T. Green is CLASS Distinguished Professor and Chair of African American Studies at the University of Houston, USA. She is the author of several books including\\xa0See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era\\xa0(2022) and editor of two books, including\\xa0From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature\\xa0(2008).
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson has received starred reviews from Publisher\\u2019s Weekly and Booklist. Pulitzer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown praised the book as \\u201ca brilliant analysis.\\u201d So who was Alice Dunbar Nelson? Born in New Orleans in 1875, she would become an activist and writer and contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. She navigated a hostile and ever-changing country as a Black bisexual woman, subject to systemic racism and sexism and impositions of \\u201crespectability.\\u201d More intimately, she navigated an abusive marriage to the well-known writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. Bloomsbury Academic podcast and Tara T. Green discuss how Alice Dunbar-Nelson found ways to not only survive but thrive in a world and a marriage that were fundamentally against her. Take a listen.
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