Keenan Norris’s latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane. Norris teaches American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. His novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award and Norris served as editor of the critical anthology Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. Norris also serves as guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center. He was a 2020-21 Public Voices fellow, a 2017 Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residence and a 2016 Callaloo Writers Workshop fellow. His editorials and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Los Angeles Times, Alta, LitHub, Visible magazine, and Remezcla.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Racism, Cop Curriculum, and Campus Safety
Why don’t we train police officers in anti-racism?...
Red Summer 1919/2019: The 100th Anniversary of a Current Crisis
In the age of Trump, Americans have conveniently forgotten their long history of white supremacist violence....
To Be Continued, or Who Lost the Civil War?
Keenan Norris on the durability of Confederate kitsch....
Post-Mortem Morning: Oakland and the Remains of the Left
Keenan Norris on the working-class electorate....
Dr. Ben Carson, Thug Life, and Malcolm X
Dr. Ben Carson just ain’t the phenomenon he was a few weeks ago....
