Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210).
Contents:
V. Onward : Coda: a final note on black life and loss / Terrion L. Williamson. This place we know : an introduction / Terrion L. Williamson ; Ode to the midwest / Kevin Young ; I. Home : Rust: a black woman's story of growing up in Northeast Ohio / Tara L. Conley ; There are birds here / Jamaal May ; Hood orchids / Devon Ginn ; Gentrification and the South Side of Ypsilanti, Michigan / Aaron K. Foley ; Traveling while black / Tanisha C. Ford ; The market on Maryland Avenue / Terrence Shambley, Jr. ; Cleveland and Chicago: a tale of four cities / Mark V. Reynolds ; Peoria, Pryor, and me / Terrion L. Williamson ; Detroit: love of my life / Courtney Rise Randolph ; On spades, queerness, and the things we learn from our grandmothers / Kidiocus King-Carrol ; Tracing water, memory, and change / Njaimeh Njie -- II. Past : Slavery, freedom, and African American voices in the midwest / Melissa N. Stuckey ; Ella Mae: the personal and the political / Jeffrey C. Wray ; "Orphan district": segregation in rural Ohio / Joe Boyle ; 2672 South Deacon Street, Detroit / Yvonne ; "Tell 'em what we did!": choosing and building black space in the midwest / Michelle S. Johnson ; The great migration of African-American southerners to Cleveland / Edward M. Miggins, ed. ; the negro in minneapolies (for prince & philando castile) / brian g. gilmore ; Realizing freedom / Phyllis May-Machunda -- III. Love : No one loves me, like I love me / Katherine SimoĢne Reynolds ; Stay debaucherous / David Weathersby ; Aug 14th, 2017--"Baptism" / Zuggie Tate ; Burn / Janice N. Harrington ; Paintings / Leslie Barlow ; Joe's Ode / DeMar Walker ; ...for, about, and with Laurie / Beverly Cottman ; from "Call & response: experiments in joy" / Gabrielle Civil -- IV. Now : Photographs / Rachel Elise Thomas ; A minute, a pond, a north-facing window / dr Kim-Marie Walker ; I am a landlocked body / Alexandra Nicome ; Columbus: different latitude, same platitudes / Deva Rashed-Boone ; The reality of being black in Iowa / Zenzele Isoke ; Trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents in black Milwaukee / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour ; It's just ok / Nia Easley ; Ghetto bird ward / Curtis L. Crisler ; On Audre Lorde and Minnesota nice Vanessa Taylor ; Hair / Lyndsey Ellis -- V. Onward : Stop pretending black midwesterners don't exist / Tamara Winfrey- Harris ; A reflection on the changing route work of Sumpter's south end / Ezekiel Joubert III ; 4 Malcolm X greenhouse / Jordan Weber ; the only moving thing / Kisha Nicole Foster ; Toward a black Chicago revival / Mary Pattillo ; Infinite Essence: James, 2018 / Mikael Chukwuma Owunna ; Coda: a final note on black life and loss / Terrion L. Williamson.
Summary:
Black in the Middle brings the voices of Black Midwesterners front and center. Filled with compelling personal narratives, thought-provoking art, and searing commentaries, this anthology explores the various meanings and experiences of blackness throughout the Rust Belt, the Midwest, and the Great Plains. Bringing together people from major metropolitan centers like Detroit and Chicago as well as smaller cities and rural areas where the lives of Black residents have too often gone unacknowledged.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.