If you are surprised or stunned by recent revelations concerning sexual assault and harassment, it is because you have been, like most of American culture, ignoring Black women. Shange’s choreopoem, now running as a revival at the Public Theater, reminds us to pay attention.
Kim Hall
Kim F. Hall is the Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College where she teaches Renaissance Literature, Black Feminist Studies, Critical Race Theory, Slavery Studies, Food Studies --and of course “The Worlds of Ntozake Shange”