Email Author Debra Dickerson

1999 Stories by Debra Dickerson

• The Elements of Style

  published November 2, 1999

  Born a working-class Negro girl from podunk, Pennsylvania, in a world designed to minimize her, B. Smith set out to build herself a new one. The... More >>

• Pennies From Hell

  published May 4, 1999

  Heading through Harlem in a LaGuardia-bound cab early one 1989 morning, Harvard urban anthropologist Katherine Newman did something remarkable.... More >>

• bell's Lettres

  published February 2, 1999

  There can't be a women's studies syllabus anywhere in reconstructed America without at least one book by bell hooks. Her first, the 1981 Ain't... More >>