“I have gone to grocery stores, been at work and forgot I was wearing my Delta Sigma Theta bracelet, and have met other women who have literally welcomed me with a hug,” Fox said. “Where else can you experience something like that? You’re complete strangers, but are relating in the fact you both joined an organization that values sisterhood and loving each other as Black women.”

Literature can have great ideological and political power, judging from the fact that literature participates in many other sorts of movements that people tend to think as being “uniquely American,” Sharp said.

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