Zora Neale Hurston – American author, anthropologist, filmmaker, and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Here is the link to the Toni Morrison Society: In 2010 Morrison was made an officer of the French Legion of Honour and two years following she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Morrison’s critically acclaimed and many novels centre around the black American experience, and the struggle her characters endure amidst an unequal and unjust society. Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, and her novel Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize. Toni Morrison – American novelist, editor, essayist, and college professor. You can find the bell hooks institute here: She has done an immense amount of work, having published more than 30 books and articles and consistently working on lectures and documentaries. Her theory is that their interaction and combination produces and perpetuates oppression and class domination. hooks’ work centres around the interaction between capitalism, gender, and race. Ramos and his wife Taís Araújo are important figures of the black movement in Brazil.īell hooks -American author, professor, feminist, and activist. Ramos is renowed for his work in television and film, and in 2018 published the very important book Na Minha Pele (translates to English ‘In My Skin’) about his personal experiences and overall reflection on racism in Brazil. Lázaro Ramos – Brazilian actor, director, and writer.
She has written for a myriad of publications, and her 2017 debut book ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ has received glowing reviews for its incredible continuation of critical tradition in analysing race inequality in the UK. Reni Eddo-Lodge – British journalist and author, creating work primarily related to feminism and structural racism.
Arceneaux has written for The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and more. Michael Arceneaux – American writer who is the author of the 2018 essay collection I Can’t Date Jesus, a New York Times bestselling book, and a second book from 2020 entitled I Don’t Want to Die Poor. The book has been praised for its honest and deeply important depiction of racism in America. One of his most famous pieces is Black Boy, a book detailing Wright’s youth in the South of the United States, his move to Chicago, and his immensely impressive writing career. Many literary critics believe that his work aided in the shift of race relations in the United States. Richard Wright – American author of whose literature primarily relates to racial themes, and the suffering of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
Her works include Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw – American civil rights advocate, lawyer, philosopher, and a scholar of critical race theory known for developing the theory of intersectionality. She is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and the 100th President of the American Sociological Association and the first African-American woman to hold this position. Patricia Hill Collins – American academic who specialises in race, class and gender. You can find more about Michelle Alexander here: She is well-known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander – American writer, civil rights advocate and lawyer, and New York Times opinion columnist.