The issues covered will include homosexuality in Africa, black churches, contemporary black music magazines and literature, and is supposed to feature contributions from Skip Gates, bell hooks, and others. We'll keep you posted as we learn more, but the title sounds provocative. Antonio and Blaine are working on a joint marketing campaign. We'll hear more from them later. We excerpted a brief portion of a previously published interview below.
Lets start with the title.
Ratz are Nice. Rats survive and adapt, they run together in the lower parts where nobody wants to go, eat what nobody else wants to eat. Like the poor and lower-classes, like Edison and the other characters in the book. Since that's the way things are, I say rats are nice. Your first book, Wigger, was about co-opting someone else's culture, but the characters in Ratz seem more directed toward their own.