Anne Spencer papers to go to UVa

Though she refused UVa in her lifetime, because it was segregated, Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer’s papers are now to be collected there. The angriest poem I know by her is “White Things,” the last line of which seems to me to be an inversion of the stereotype of the black speaker as backward or chthonic. I also recommend a look at her “The Sévignés,” a look at the “intricate involvement of slavery” revealed by a statue of Uncle Remus.