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A review by ladiijenni
Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
5.0
This is the hyperbole of feminist fiction. LaShonda Katrice Barnett takes you on a journey saturated with historical facts that begins in the 1890s and ends in 1925. From Jim Crow laws in the South, the Christian influence of HBCUs, the Great Migration of the North which details the horrors of mass incarceration, union representation for blacks, and the lynching of the North which included a fictionalized of a lynching that occurred in Omaha during the Red Summer of 1919.
I found it important that Barnett made the protagonist Ivoe a lesbian who falls in love with her Journalism teacher, Ona, as many early 20th century feminists were lesbian or bisexual, but that history is often forgotten.
I found it important that Barnett made the protagonist Ivoe a lesbian who falls in love with her Journalism teacher, Ona, as many early 20th century feminists were lesbian or bisexual, but that history is often forgotten.