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Published: Tue Oct 15 2019
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Ode to Kanye West’s Colonized Mind on the Hundredth Recommendation for My Son to Read Richard Wright’s Native Son, the Only Book I Will Never Give Him

Hope Wabuke, a Ugandan American writer, is the author of the poetry collection The Body Family (Haymarket Books, forthcoming 2022) and the chapbooks her, The Leaving, and Movement No.1: Trains. She writes literary and cultural criticism for NPR, is poetry editor of Ruminate, and is assistant professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. (updated 4/2021)

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