Starred Review: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Aug 6
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This insightful book is one of the few books to connect the resistance of the Harlem Renaissance with the 1960s fight for civil rights.
From Library Journal
★ Miller (English, North Carolina State Univ.; Origins of the Dream) studies the mutually beneficial connection between pianist, songwriter, and singer Nina Simone (1933–2003) and poet Langston Hughes (1901–67). Miller maintains that Hughes was Simone’s closest confidant, a relationship that formed an intergenerational bond, linked different artistic genres, and influenced Stokely Carmichael’s popularization of the phrase “Black Power” in 1966.
