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Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Memoir

In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.

Robin D. G. Kelley
Every city I’ve lived in has been filled with racism, whether out in the open or hidden in an invisible dialogue of economics and housing. Birmingham taught me to never question what it meant to be a Black American.
Randall Horton
Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.
Brian Teare
A recording of our virtual literary event with three generations of Black women writers.

A veteran AIDS activist looks back on the 1990s.

Andrew Spieldenner

Newly translated into English, Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a vivid portrait of immigrant displacement and the ironies of our global cultural ecosystem.

Houman Barekat

In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.

Christina Knight, Sonia Sanchez

A trip to Machu Picchu ends up offering surprising insights into what it means to be a survivor of the genocide of Native Americans.

Deborah Taffa

Amid widespread indifference toward the most vulnerable, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.

Michael McColly
On being awestruck by literature, and the necessary pleasures of intimacy—near and remote—during quarantine.
Peter Coviello

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