Allen M. Price
Allen M. Price has an MA in journalism from Emerson College. His essay, "Running From Blackness," published in the Masters Review, was a 2020 nonfiction finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writings Award. His fiction and nonfiction work appears or is forthcoming in Terrain.org, Hobart, upstreet, Transition Magazine, Zone 3, Entropy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Juked, River Teeth, the Fourth River (chosen by guest editor Ira Sukrungruang), Jellyfish Review, Bayou, Sou'wester, Cosmonauts Avenue, Gertrude Press, the Adirondack Review, the Saturday Evening Post, and others. An excerpt of his screenplay appears in the Louisville Review. His chapbook The Unintended Consequences of Haitian Reparation appears in Hawai'i Review.
Reading List
America’s Incrementation of Negro Equality
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things […]