num_pages: 189
description: A fierce collection of essays that tackle the question Who is welcome? while also uplifting and celebrating the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working there.Essays in A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South examine issues of sex gender academia family immigration health social justice sports music and more. Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones like Popeyes and OutKast. Aruni Kashyap apartment hunts in Athens and encounters a minefield of invasive questions. Frederick McKindra delves into the particularly Southern history of Beyonces black majorettes. From the DMV to the college basketball court to doctors offices there are no shortage of places of tension in the American South. Urgent necessary funny and poignant these essays from new and established voices confront the complexities of the Souths relationship with race uncovering the particular difficulties and profound joys of being a southerner in the 21st century. With writing from Cinelle Barnes Jaswinder Bolina Regina Bradley Jennifer Hope Choi Tiana Clark Christena Cleveland Osayi Endolyn M. Evelina Galang Minda Honey Gary Jackson Toni Jensen Aruni Kashyap Latria Graham Soniah Kamal Frederick McKindra Devi Laskar Kiese Laymon Nichole Perkins Joy Priest Ivelisse Rodriguez and Natalia Sylvester.
language: English
title: A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South
publisher: Hub City Press