Dawud Anyabwile: Essay
A New Toon by Robert Trujillo Originally appeared in Mosaic #24, May 2009 I discovered Dawud Anyabwile’s work about two years ago while researching illustrations that were representative of African Americans and Latinos in contemporary comics and graphic novels.
Criminal Minded: Chester Himes
This article was originally reprint in Mosaic #11, September 2001 Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Himes’s approach to his first vocation, and his later writing, was simple and direct. In November 1928,…
Caribbean Women Writers by Marcia Douglas: Essay
Originally appeared in Mosaic #9, June 2000 In the late 1980s, upon learning about a forthcoming conference profiling the work of Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid asked, “Are there many of us?” The conference was the 1988 First International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers
Southern Comfort: Louisiana’s Black Writers
Southern Comfort: Louisiana’s Black Writers by Rosa Lili Mosaic #1 | April 1998 Everyone knows about Louisiana cooking and New Orleans jazz, but there is also a lot to say about this state’s local writers. There’s a written tradition by blacks there which dates back to the 19th century.
