Dorothy West was called Zora Neale Hurston's "Kid Sister," and her books were not immediate successes, partly, some say, because she wrote about the Black middle class. "She wrote 'posh black' at a time when 'broke black' was in vogue, and this sits at the heart of her flickering obscurity, a myopia in mainstream culture […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM on August 18, 2019