Pearl Cleage

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Pearl Cleage is a playwright and essayist; she has also written short stories.

Works

• Mad at Miles: A Blackwoman's Guide to Truth (1990 essay collection)
• Deals With the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot (1993 essay collection)
• The Brass Bed and Other Stories (short story collection)

• "Mad at Miles", an essay in Mad at Miles and Deals with the Devil which memorably advocated a boycott of Miles Davis because of his physical assaults against his female partners:

[H]e is guilty of self-confessed violent crimes against women such that we should break his albums, bum his tapes and scratch up his CDs until he acknowledges and apologizes and rethinks his position on The Woman Question.

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