Percival Everett imagines black code-switching in the antebellum era. Frances Harper did it first.Black writers have been imagining language as a tool to carve out agency under slavery for over a hundred years.Feb 2310Feb 2310
Reflections on Reading the Descriptions of Every National Book Awards Finalist Since 2008Diversity, inequality, neoliberalism and the back-cover copy of 85 prizewinning booksJan 202Jan 202
