Keenan Norris

Keenan Norris | Substack I write & think about community college, California, race, work, writing craft, athletics... I'm a prof (SJSU, where I run the Steinbeck Fellows Program) and award-winning scribe (Nor-Cal Book Award, ...

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Allensworth and Black Resilience on Juneteenth This Central Valley town was founded in 1908 to offer Black people respite from the Jim Crow South, but it was stymied by racism and failed. Today, it’s a state park where broken dreams exist alongsid...

Allensworth, CA and the Case for Reparations: www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American The administration knows that subduing history as it is doing works to keep people of color in this country disunited and at odds with each other.

It Has Never Been Easy to be Both Black and American: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Paris: Revolution, Interrupted: Richard Wright’s Parisian Dissent & Death Keenan Norris | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature This excerpt from “Death in Paris (1960),” which appears in Keenan Norris’s Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings, revisits the final years of Richard Wright’s life in Paris, placing his politic...

Revolution, interrupted: panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...