Oxford American # 64, Spring 2009

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