black writers courageously staring down the white gaze - this is why we all must read them | stan grant /

It takes courage for a black person to speak to a white world,a world that can render invisible people of colour, unless they begin to more closely resemble white people themselvesThe white gaze – it is a phrase that resonates in black American literature. Writers from WEB Du Bois to Ralph Ellison to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison absorb struggled with it and railed against it.
As Morrison – a Nobel Laureate – once said:Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com