This episode veers the discussion towards African American literature with two woman representatives: Georgia Douglas Johnson and Toni Morrison, the latter very much inspired by the former.
Having first examined internalized racism through the case of Pecola in The Bluest Eye, Kim immediately reads Johnson's "The Heart of a Woman" through the lens of racial segregation, although the poem was once criticized to be not explicit and eloquent enough to be part of the Harlem Renaissance Movement. After all, as both hosts agree, the black woman is a caged bird inside out, trapped within their own prejudices against themselves and the social discourse that discriminates against them.
