Editor's Introduction

From a retrospective on the "third man" of the Négritude movement, Léon Gontran-Damas, to a thoroughgoing engagement with African women's political autobiographies, this issue of Palimpsest wraps up with an introduction to the emergent field of black girlhood studies, along with selected abstracts from the "Black Girl and Black Girlhood Studies" symposium.

Léon-Gontron Damas, deputy at the French Assembly, January 24, 1939.

Courtesy of Dominique Achille.