![]() ![]() I wanted to tell a story about Los Angeles that highlighted black life and the black contribution to culture within a mirror-darkly that partially reflected the American experience within a shadowy landscape of national shame. When I wrote Devil I had a simple thought in mind. Men and women have entered the eternal tournament rushing to get ahead, to keep up, or to escape the consequences of being black and poor, being white and poor, or simply being the underdog in a system, a nation, a worldwide pandemic of underdogism. We’ve been running for centuries, all of us have-the made-up colors, black and white, brown, red, and yellow, along with a multitude of sects and faiths, language groups and economic systems. Race in the United States of America is, to say the least, the long haul. America was still (and is still) struggling with its own history, its own unconscious awareness of race and who’s winning that contest. ![]() The publication date of Devil in a Blue Dress was in June 1990. ![]()
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