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Black and Queer on Campus X,
Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1 Getting to Campus
2 The Ebony Queertidian
3 Adjusting to College
4 Coming into the Life
5 Everyday Oppression
6 Confronting Racism and Homophobia
7 Ebony Queertidian Politics
Conclusion: Black Queertidian Futures
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index
About the Author
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B L AC K A N D QU E E R O N C A M PU S
BLACK AND QUEER ON CAMPUS Michael P. Jeffries
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My Début as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories
MY DÉBUT AS A LITERARY
PERSON
with
OTHER ESSAYS AND STORIES
MY DÉBUT AS A LITERARY PERSON
In those early days I had already published one
little thing ("The Jumping Frog") in an East-
ern paper, but I did not consider that that counted.
In my view, a person who published things in a
mere newspaper could not properly claim recog-
nition as a Literary Person: he must rise away
above that; he must come in a magazine. He
would then be a Literary Person; also, he would be
famous—right away. These two ambitions were
powerful upon me. This was in I prepared
my contribution, and then looked around for the
best magazine to go up to glory in. I selected the
most important one in New York. The contribu-
tion was accepted. I signed it "Mark Twain";
for that name had some currency on the Pacific
coast, and it was my idea to spread it all over the
world, now, at this one spring . The article appeared
in the December number, and I sat up a month
waiting for the January number; for that one would
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