Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

"A collection of unpublished work by a well-known author? Meh, I’ve heard enough of that guy, probably. I gotta be a fan. But there is another type of posthumous publishing that I cannot get enough of – the sheaf of stories found in a trunk that, once unearthed, tell us something emotional, modern, right for our time. Particularly when they belong to a woman of color only just getting her due. Kathleen Collins was a playwright, filmmaker and activist. This group of her newly found short stories is so fascinating that after reading the title story, I said a small “thank you” under my breath to her daughter for uncovering them. They’re a tour through the emotional and high-stakes time of the ‘60s and ‘70s, when interracial relationships seemed to be one path to understanding and a more cohesive future. As far from that future as we are now, it’s sad but instructive to read Collins’ stories."

"I was moved, agitated and inspired by Kathleen Collins's rediscovered "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love""