"Obligations to Negroes who would be kin if they were not Negro".

HUGHES, Everett C.; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; GAUTIER, Amina; DURROW, Heidi; BRADSHAW, Thomas

The 1965/1966 Dædalus issues on "The Negro American" reveal how America's racial future was imagined nearly a half-century ago, and at least one of the prophecies -- voiced by sociologist Everett C. Hughes -- found its fulfillment in an unexpected way at President Obama's inauguration in 2009. Short stories by Amina Gautier ("Been Meaning to Say" and "Pan is Dead"), Heidi Durrow's novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, plays by Thomas Bradshaw (Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist and Cleansed), and poems by Terranee Hayes ("For Brothers and the Dragon" and "The Avocado") suggest trends in recent works by African American authors who began their publishing careers in the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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