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Publication Credits Full or partial versions of the following pieces first appeared in the LA Weekly and are reprinted here by permission: “The Butt,” “Black Like I Thought I Was,” “Fire and Ice,” “Blue Like Me,” “Losing New Orleans” (originally titled “Washed Away”), “Thoroughly Modern Mammy,” “Behind the American-­ History Curtain,” “The Accidental Populist,” “The Empress’s New Clothes,” “Homeboys in Outer Space and Other Transgressions,” “White Man with Attitude,” “Welcome to Inglewood!,” “The King of Compton ,” “Lost Soul,” “Held Back,” “Man and Superwoman,” “The Boy of Summer ,” and “Unsocial Studies.” “Blackness Itself” (originally “These People”) and “The Eastside Boys” first appeared in the Los Angeles Times. “The Last Campaign” was first published by UnderWire.com. “Falling for Tiger Woods” and “The Color of Love” were first published by Salon.com. “Mother Roux” first appeared in the Salon collection edited by Kate Moses and Camille Peri, Mothers Who Think (Villard, 1999). “Mother, Unconceived” first appeared in Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood, edited by Cecilie Berry (Doubleday, 2004). “They’re Going Crazy Out There” first appeared in Geography of Rage: 1992, edited by Jervey Tervalon (Really Great Books, 2002). A partial version of “Barack Obama: Miles Traveled, Miles to Go” first appeared in The Oxford American. ...

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