Loving before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White

by Joan Steinau Lester

Book Overview

Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms with her own racism. She fell in love and married a fellow activist, the Black writer Julius Lester, establishing a partnership that was long and multifaceted but not free of the politics of race and gender. As the women's movement dawned, feminism helped Lester find her voice, her pansexuality, and the courage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299331008
• ISBN13: 9780299331009
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"