Notes From No Man's Land

A candid and engrossing look at race and racial identity. American Essays: Notes from No Man's Land begins with a series of lynchings and finishes with a series of apologies. Eula Biss investigates race in America, and her perspective is shaped by her experiences, which include teaching in a Harlem school on 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching Katrinas aftermath from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicagos most diverse neighborhood. Biss writings span the country, from New York to California to the Midwest and span time, from biblical Babylon to Reconstructions freedman schools to a Jim Crow mining community to postwar white flight.