Lorraine Hansberry and the Practice of Freedom

The biography here under review situates Lorraine Hansberry’s published and unpublished work within the intellectual and political contexts in which she was enmeshed, foregrounding her insights into the struggle for Black freedom as a global and intersectional movement. Through close readings of her plays and careful attention to her archive, the book reveals a queer, Black, globally minded feminist thinker who understood the process of becoming free as both a daily practice and an unfinished business.