About this Event
Join award-winning author, poet and memoirist, Shonda Buchanan, as she reads from her memoir, Black Indian. After her reading, Shonda will be available for questions and book signing.
This is a no cost event, but space is limited.
Black Indian is searing, raw and beautifully rendered. Rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old resentments, Shonda Buchanan's memoir is an inspiring story that explores her family's legacy of being African Americans with American Indian roots and how they dealt with not just society's ostracization but the consequences of this dual inheritance.
About the Author
Award-winning educator and memoirist, Shonda Buchanan, is the author of Black Indian, chosen by PBS NewsHour as a “Top 20 books to read” to learn about institutional racism. Her newest book of poems, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone, explores the life of the lauded Civil Rights icon, singer, pianist and composer.
An Associate Professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan University, Shonda’s forthcoming collection of essays, Children of the Mixed Blood Trail, explores the hidden tapestry of Free People of Color migration from the Southeast to the Midwest, specifically in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she was born and raised.
Shonda is currently writing a collection of poems and essays about growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a Black Lives Matter book of poetry, "America’s Bloodflowers: Poems," as well as "Artificial Earth: Poems and Essays," a book about the first mixed-race “settlers” of Los Angeles and California Indians. For more information, visit www.shondabuchanan.com.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Building 122, 122 South Main Street, Vicksburg, United States
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