Ntozake Shange’s Nappy Edges contains essays and poetry about racism, love, loneliness, violence against women, and women’s own being. It is written from Ntozakes’ heartfelt and devastating direct view of her body, life, and the world.
Nappy Edges is Shange’s third book and is divided into five elements of poetry and prose. While each part of the volume is unique, the poems all speak to one another and cover similar topics.
How do we distinguish between racism and sexism? Is the only difference between us, as women, and blacks, as victims of the former? Or are there deeper differences?
In Ntozake Shange’s Nappy Edges, it depicts several aspects of racism and misogyny. As previously said, this work contains themes of love as well as topics concerning loneliness. She demonstrates the bigotry that her people faced at the time and still face today. She decided to write a book on some of her fellow black women who had encountered both racism and sexism. Unconscious bias training, according to Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, is contentious because it implies that “America is entrenched in the toxic and inaccurate assumption that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist culture.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. initiated the civil rights movement in 1955 because America has yet to evolve into an equitable nation, it has never ceased. Women and people of color continue to fight for equal rights and opportunities.
The issue with some people in this world is that they are unconcerned about how you feel or will feel if your human rights are taken away from you. For someone who is black and endures both racism and sexism, it must be quite difficult.
Ntozake Shange’s Nappy Edges earned great reviews and appreciation from reviewers. The fundamental themes of nappy edges can all be traced back to black women’s complex lives and identities.