Literature Archives – Scalawag

Bookmobiles to the rescue

by Leticia Urieta September 20, 2022September 21, 2022

In 26 states, students' access to books in school is under attack. Texas leads the nation with 16 districts enacting 713 individual bans.

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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022June 26, 2022

Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022May 23, 2022

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022

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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: Black History Month

by Scalawag Editors February 4, 2022February 4, 2022

'All my people come from the hills'

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 25, 2022April 7, 2022

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire December 28, 2021January 19, 2022

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Our South: Where fiction meets reality

by Scalawag Team December 9, 2021December 9, 2021

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Scalawag's 2021 Jubilee: A southern ass evening of liberatory lit 🎉

by Scalawag Team November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022

Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

'The rest of the world tells us that these bodies are killing us'

by Ko Bragg September 2, 2021January 20, 2022

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021

Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020January 11, 2021

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 27, 2020December 3, 2020

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 21, 2020March 15, 2022

Happy Birthday Alice Walker: Eatonton Georgia welcomes famous author home

by Ra Malika Imhotep February 12, 2020September 16, 2020

Arts & Soul, Race & Place

Our Toni

by W.J. Lofton December 11, 2019October 1, 2020

Blount County remembers Cormac McCarthy and looks towards its literary future

by Lou Murrey December 2, 2019September 16, 2020

Talking Race, with Rules: Q&A with Ijeoma Oluo

by Ariel Felton November 11, 2019October 1, 2020

Black Body As Told By The Stirrups

by Xandria Phillips February 18, 2019September 16, 2020

The Occasional Poet: An Interview with Nikky Finney

by Scalawag Editors January 7, 2019April 16, 2021

'This Work Will Take Dancing:' Poems by Andrea Beltran and MJ Santiago

by Andrea Beltran and MJ Santiago January 7, 2019December 3, 2020

'This Work Will Take Dancing:' Two Poems by mónica teresa ortiz

by mónica teresa ortiz November 26, 2018April 7, 2021

'This Work Will Take Dancing:' Poems by MJ Santiago and Andres Rojas

by MJ Santiago and Andres Rojas November 12, 2018December 3, 2020

'This Work Will Take Dancing:' Poems by Amanda Rodriguez and Steven Leyva

by Steven Leyva and Amanda Rodriguez October 22, 2018December 3, 2020

'This Work Will Take Dancing:' Poems by Maria Esquinca and Maria Vargas

by Maria Vargas and Maria Esquinca October 15, 2018December 3, 2020