![]() Wilson and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, her stories are interested in “black U.S. Thompson-Spires writes that, like the work of Smith and some of his contemporaries, including William J. ![]() Thompson-Spires was inspired by James McCune Smith, a 19th-century abolitionist and doctor whose brief stories about various characters were published under the title “Heads of the Colored People, Done With a Whitewash Brush.” In an author’s note, Ms. But this wasn’t any kind of self-hatred thing.” Ms. ![]() From the opening sentences of the opening story in Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s debut collection, “Heads of the Colored People,” we’re in a world of humor, provocation and deep reflection about cultural signifiers: “Riley wore blue contact lenses and bleached his hair - which he worked with gel and a blow-dryer and a flatiron some mornings into Sonic the Hedgehog spikes so stiff you could prick your finger on them, and sometimes into a wispy side-swooped bob with long bangs - and he was black. ![]()
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