Celebrated author Kiese Laymon considers economic and intellectual class, white supremacy, and Black Southern art in this lyrical essay, exclusive to Scalawag.
Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He now lives in Oxford, where he is a Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. He's the author of a novel, Long Division, and an award-winning collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. His most recent book is Heavy: An American Memoir.