Monthly Archive » May 2009
This page contains 7 entries posted in May 2009
Interracial America
Publishing/Literary
Deep south, Jim Crow, and interracial marriages. Two new books from Danzy Senna and W. Ralph Eubanks tackle the intersection of race and family in America.
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Publishing/Literary
There's talk in the literary blogosphere surrounding the Coretta Scott King Book Award. The reason for the debate: some folk think it's racist. My first reaction: are they serious? Unfortunately, they are.
Publishing/Literary
Former NPR Host Farai Chideya talks with Books on the Root about music, her next moves, and her new book, "Kiss the Sky."
Sag Harbor: Black or Post Black?
Publishing/Literary
A New York Times review of Colson Whitehead's new book, Sag Harbor, explores the collision of books, race and the Internet. Is there post-black lit?
Who's Your Mama?
Publishing/Literary
Even in well-intentioned reverence of mothers, there can be an unintentional diminishing of the fullness of their person. "Too often motherhood books marginalize women's lives aside from their role as mother," Bynoe added. "However it is the woman, her background, her relationships and her experiences that inform her mothering and the type of family that she creates. The women I know, my Gen-X/Hip Hop generation peers had fulfilling lives before they became mothers."
Publishing/Literary
"I identify more with Nick Carraway now than I did when I was younger," Nelson George says about the observant character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Carraway captured George's attention when he was a nerdy adolescent growing up in Queens, a fact he recalls in his new memoir City Kid, which chronicles his coming of age and its influence on his career as a writer.
Publishing/Literary
There are many remarkable things about Staceyann Chin's new memoir, The Other Side of Paradise. But what has hit me the strongest is the bold reminder that you never know what someone has been through.
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