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Article: "It's a Time in the Land": gendering black power and Sarah E. Wright's place in the tradition of black women's writing. (on racism and sexism)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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The concept of Black Power rests on a fundamental premise: Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. By this we mean that group solidarity is necessary before a group can operate effectively from a bargaining position of strength in a pluralistic society. (Carmichael and Hamilton 44)
Written during the height of the Black Power Movement, Sarah E. Wright's This Child's Gonna Live (1969) offers a woman-centered vision of an impoverished, besieged black community finally "closing ranks" in order to combat the systemic and individualized racism that seeks to destroy whatever community it cannot control. Set on Maryland's Eastern Shore in ...