Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the editors of the following publications in which these essays first appeared: Bookpress, for “A Love Note: A. R. Ammons as Teacher”; English Department Newsletter, for “Hungers: Reflections on Affirmative Action”; and Epoch, for “The Mitchell Movement,” “The 13th Juror,” and “Color.” “Shadow Boxing,” © The Antioch Review, Inc., first appeared in the Antioch Review, vol. 58, no. 4, Fall 2000. Reprinted by permission of the editors. “Teachers,” ©The Antioch Review, Inc., first appeared in the Antioch Review, vol. 60, no. 1, Winter 2002. Reprinted by permission of the editors. “A King’s Holiday: A Personal Reminiscence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” ©The Antioch Review, Inc., first appeared in the Antioch Review, vol. 60, no. 4, Fall 2002. Reprinted by permission of the editors. “Musicals,” ©The Antioch Review, Inc., first appeared in the Antioch Review, vol. 63, no. 4, Fall 2005. Reprinted by permission of the editors. “Driving,” © The Antioch Review, Inc., first appeared in the Antioch Review, vol. 64, no. 4, Fall 2006. Reprinted by permission of the editors. ix I would also like to thank David Burak and Rodger Gilbert for reprinting “A Love Note: A. R. Ammons as Teacher” in their fine book, Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005). A slightly revised version of “The Mitchell Movement” was published in After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School, edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hessler (University of Iowa Press, 2007). I would also like to thank the Antioch Review for honoring me with the 2002 Distinguished Prose Award. And I would be remiss if I did not thank Barbara Hanrahan , the superb director of the University of Notre Dame Press, who called me three days after she had read two of the essays included here. A writer needs to be corroborated, and that call, at a rather dark time for me, was life itself. x a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s ...