“Teaching the N-Word” montages memory. Emily Bernard carefully assembles personal history across time, place, and people. She describes the ways in which we uphold and subvert our constructions of race, traversing an emotional… Continue reading
What I’ve always loved about sports is the complication of the human element. I love sitting at the 400 or 500 level of a baseball stadium and hearing fans complain about umpires missing… Continue reading
This summer I finally fulfilled my desire to paint a self portrait. The portrait turned out to be a triptych in acrylic paint and it certainly shows my novice level, but who cares?… Continue reading
I recall fiction writer Victor Lavalle saying that his work is often compared to black writers whose work he does not recognize as similar. Lavalle felt that a lack of familiarity with black… Continue reading
Um, can someone please tell me what balabusta means in English? What about Sukkot? Can these words be accurately translated and is there some value that is lost in the transaction, this linguistic… Continue reading
Welcome to Delenarts.com, a blog about the arts and living the ethnic pastiche by American writers of color. “Delen” has etymological roots in Old Dutch and the verb form means to…Click on the… Continue reading
