For young Black boys and men, Chicago can be a place where they encounter both endless inspiration and despair. In “Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings,” author Keenan Norris draws connections between experiences of literary giants and his father.
For young Black boys and men, Chicago can be a cradle and a crucible, a place where they can encounter both endless inspiration and endless despair. In the latest installment of our “Black Voices” Book Club, author Keenan Norris moves back and forth in time, drawing connections between the experiences of literary giants and those of his own father as a young Black man in Chicago in the book ““My father gave me a number of books to read when I was 13 years old,” Norris said.
“I was drawn to write about Chicago because of my father’s stories, my father’s impact on me, the stories that my father told me about growing up in Chicago, and my larger fascination with the Great Migration,” Norris said. “I came to understand Chicago as particularly important in the history of Black America and our larger American narrative.”“Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings" by Keenan Norris.
In Grant Park I sat where Barack Obama stood when he accepted the nomination to the presidency for the first time. I heard an old song blaring from a battered boombox balanced on the roots of a shade tree,I walked the park. Nearer the river, I hadn’t been able to feel my face it was so fiercely cold, but now, further from its icy reach, I unfroze and felt everything. The cold had gotten past my layers and was in me, making me live in time and place.
The term “Chi-Raq” links Chicago street violence to an infamous American war on the other side of the world. In thinking about the violence that has beset my own family, I’ve had to sink deep into the ways American street violence and American militarism are connected.
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