COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff
Publisher’s Forum:
A Great Debate
A discussion featuring Julian Bond, Morris Dees, Richard Thompson Ford, Vanessa Siddle Walker, and Juan Williams
by Warwick Sabin
Gone Off Up North:
Preposterous Lengths
by Roy Blount, Jr.
Local Fare:
In Through the Back Door
by John T. Edge
Meditation:
My Fear of the South
by Jerald Walker
Politics:
A Finished Revolution?
by ZZ Packer
Politics:
Obama I: Blood Dread and Hope
by Jesmyn Ward
Politics:
Obama II: Miles Traveled, Miles to Go
by Erin Aubrey Kaplan
Politics
Obama III: Rednecks for Obama
by Emily Bernard
Politics
Obama IV: On War and Election
by Ada Liana Bidiuc
Epistolary:
America's Greatest Hits
by Lolis Eric Elie
Family:
Finding Black Power
by Stephanie Powell Watts
Family:
Missing
by Sarah M. Brown
Education:
A Perfect Test
by Mike Copperman
Education:
The Future of Throwbacks
by Bill Maxwell
Travel:
Progress in the Land of the Cherokees?
by Akiva Freidlin
Dealer’s Choice:
Encounters with Angels
by Hal Crowther
FEATURES
Raceman
by Arthur Rickydoc Flowers
The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Zelwa the Halfie
A story by Randa Jarrar
The Usual Things
A story by Solon Timothy Woodward
Dream Season
A story by James Hatley
The Promise of Love
A story by John Holman
Poems
by Rita Dove
Art Gallery & Poetry
Featuring masterpieces of art and poems by
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Adrienne Su
Sean Hill
Michelle Courtney Berry
Jericho Brown
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Poem
by Ai
Cover: “Who Can Say No to a Gorgeous Brunette? 1970/2007†by Hank Willis Thomas
Title: Oxford American # 64, Spring 2009
Series: Oxford American
Item Number: OXFORDAMERICAN2009SP
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