:<i>The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side</i>

Cubbin, Tom

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“…In the reconfigured context of racialized social reproduction, Lena-and Walter Lee's wife, Ruth-does laundry for white people (Baldwin 2016). At various points in the play, the two women share exchanges that recall Alice Childress' Mildred columns in their knowing depiction of white employers' unreasonable expectations of domestic workers (RS,.…”

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An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home

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2024

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This article takes as its starting point a 1961 conversation between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, where the latter first posed the question that would recur in Baldwin’s writings in the following years: “Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?” Although the phrase is often associated with Baldwin, who mostly used it as a metaphor for the racist nation, most famously in The Fire Next Time (1963), this article shows how Hansberry’s analysis of many African Americans’ skepticism toward integration into a “burning house” was situated in a global context of anticolonial, anti-capitalist, and feminist struggle. Writing within networks of Black internationalist feminists and presenting a multivalent and relational account of home, Hansberry revealed household labor and relations of intimacy to be central to the making and maintenance of empire, racism, and capitalism, as well as their contestation through acts and affects of insurgency.

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“…Scholarship on Hansberry has focused on the home and family in her work, although they have limited their discussion to Raisin(Baldwin 2016;Matthews 2008;Smith 2004). Recent biographies have noted home as an important setting and theme inHansberry's published and unpublished writings (Diggs-Colbert 2021;Perry 2018).…”

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An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home

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