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A nuanced young black voice: novelist Kalisha Buckhanon complicates the image of Black teenagers.(PROFILE)
WHEN KALISHA BUCKHANON returned to the downstate Illinois town she had left many years earlier, the interval of time allowed her to observe her family with a fresh perspective. Having immersed herself for years in academic studies in New York and Chicago, she began to realize the degree to which the Black community from which she came did not resemble the nuclear families depicted in the media or experienced by her privileged college acquaintances.
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"When you go back home, you are really forced to look around and deal with a lot of things that are not necessarily a part of your reality anymore," says Buckhanon, who is now 30. In her ...
- Kalisha Buckhanon's first novel Upstate, sold to Monique Patterson at St....
- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review March 1, 2004 700+ words
Kalisha Buckhanon's first novel Upstate, sold to Monique Patterson at St. Martin...for two books by Tracy Sherrod at The Tracy Sherrod Literary Agency. Buckhanon's mentor, poet and novelist Sapphire, recommended Upstate and sent...
- Promising new author.(Kalisha Buckhanon gets award in National Book Club...
- Magazine article from: Jet August 28, 2006 700+ words
...McMillan presents the Terry McMillan Best New Young Author Award to Kalisha Buckhanon (r) during the recent National Book Club Conference in Atlanta. McMillan selected Buckhanon based on her debut novel, Upstate. Others honored during the conference...
- Buckhanon, Kalisha. Conception, a novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Hinton, KaaVonia January 1, 2008 700+ words
BUCKHANON, Kalisha. Conception, a novel. Holtzbrinck. 277p. c2008. 978-0-312-33270-9. $21.95. SA In this gritty novel...
- Buckhanon, Kalisha. Conception.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Theiss, Nola September 1, 2008 700+ words
BUCKHANON, Kalisha. Conception. Read by Bahni Turpin. 8 cds. 9.5. hrs. Books on Tape, 2008. 978-1-4159-4844-6. $100...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 30, 1988 700+ words
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- Two area commissions proposed for South Side: Groups would receive money from...
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) July 5, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Jodi Andes Jul. 5--The South Side is as diverse as it is large. The $1 million...different from the middleclass homes in the South Side's core. For those reasons, some South Side groups want the city to recognize the area...
- South Side harbors best bargains
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Don DeBat February 7, 1986 700+ words
Home resale values on the South Side are rebounding strongly from the...selling price for a home on the South Side was $58,700 in December, up...and southwest suburbs outpaced the South Side in the resale home market. The...
- South Side Is Becoming San Antonio's Hot Area.
- Newspaper article from: San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) February 29, 2004 700+ words
...29--For decades, San Antonio's South Side played also-ran to the bustling North...decisions. Much of the desirable land on the South Side was also in the hands of the U.S...the area. But much has changed on the South Side. Acres formerly owned by the U.S...
