Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors General Gender Studies while building a bond even

while building a bond even sturdier than Buck’s canoe

composing lines alongside a cache of hundreds of photographs found under her late grandmother’s bed only days before the house was slated to be razed

Dark Noise Collective—and the complex bonds of solidarity and dialogue among poets across time and place

and to hide his Blackness from him

Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors General Gender Studies while building a bond evenRemember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites readers to breathe deeply and return to that "carefree" season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun drenched memories were often clouded by racism for the