Renate "Rennie" Marie Simson (March 13, 1934 – February 19, 2017)[1] was an American author and professor of African-American literature and writing. Her work has been influential in African American literature and identity studies. She wrote an essay on Black women's sexuality and identity, The Afro-American Female: The Historical Context of the Construction of Sexual Identity.[2][3][4]
Her work posited that victimized black women often avoided intimacy altogether which affected their sexual identity causing them to become self-reliant.[5]
Afro-American Literature of the 19th Century: A Focus for the 80's - Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Regional Conference on English [10]
The Unsung Past: Afro-American Women Writers of 19th Century - Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (69th, San Francisco, CA, November 22–24, 1980) [11]
Politics and the race issue as presented in the works of Afro American women writers of the 19th century (Afro scholar working papers) - 1982
