Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

Abstract

Soyica Diggs Colbert reveals how Lorraine Hansberry’s theatre-making practices were deeply tied to the politics of the Civil Rights era. Colbert pays special attention to how Hansberry interpreted Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialism through the lens of Black liberation and the politics of W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.