Lift Every Voice
Sep 14, 2020
3 minutes
By Jonathan Miles
Not even a geographical place” is how William Faulkner’s Chick Mallison, in , regarded the North, “but an emotional idea.” Mallison may just have well—and more accurately—been describing his native South. Yet even more nebulous, and more emotionally charged, is the notion of Southern identity—especially for people of color. For , a thoroughly timely anthology, the writer and editor Cinelle Barnes marshals twenty-one considerations of what it means to be a Southerner
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