Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Marriage, and the Politics of the Erotic

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Notes

¹ Elizabeth West, “Religion, Race, and Gender in the ‘Race-less’ Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson.” Black Magnolias Literary Journal 3, no. 1 (2009): 5.

² The Women’s Era was a newspaper focused on African Americans and written by African American women. It was edited by Josephine Ruffin, a leader in the Black club women’s movement. Dunbar-Nelson, who was active in this movement, began writing for the paper in 1894.

³ For more information about their courtship, marriage, and separation, see Alexander’s Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow.

⁴ See Gloria (Akasha) Hull's Color, Sex & Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Indiana University Press, 1987.