Queer Harlem Renaissance Women in the Soviet Union : The Travels of Louise Thompson Patterson, Dorothy West and Constance White

Queer Harlem Renaissance Women in the Soviet Union: The Travels of Louise Thompson Patterson, Dorothy West and Constance White explores the experiences of three prominent African American women before, during and after a trip to Russia in 1932. Louise Thompson Patterson, Dorothy West and Constance White underwent gendered, racialized and sexualized transformations as a result of the trip, which they documented in works such as interviews, postcards, letters and magazine articles. Powell argues that it is salient to the historical record to re-story this trip through the lens of women, as it has predominantly been understood through a man’s gaze.. This book reviews how the perceivable, rigid, white and cold country of Russia provided a place of solace for three marginalized women