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Thursday, June 29, 2017

"America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me" by Shane McCrae

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June 29, 2017
 

America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me

 
Shane McCrae
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About This Poem

 

"'America Gives Its Blackness Back to Me' was written last November in the immediate wake of the election. It was spurred by a sudden reminder that as a black person in America I am neither free to determine who I am nor free even to know the precise terms according to which I am defined by others."
—Shane McCrae

 

Shane McCrae is the author of In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017). He teaches at Columbia University.

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In the Language of My Captor

(Wesleyan University Press, 2017)

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