Lessons from Audre Lorde's The Uses of Anger

Audre Lorde's now classic The Uses of Anger was first delivered at UCONN Storrs in 1981. One of two keynote lectures it offered Lorde's address of the National Women's Studies Association conference topic of women responding to racism. In their introduction Gordon Orozco Mendoza and Zane reflect on the inheritance lessons and responsibilities that UCONN Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies must grapple with if it is to deepen and fulfill its radical mission. Guided by the imperative to look backward to understand the present and forge a future the book closes with a sankofic interview with M. Jaqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall conducted by Briona Simone Jones.