Raven Chronicles Vol 19, Race—Under Our Skin: ISSN 1066-188. Vol. 19, 100 pages, featuring 38 writers and 14 artists/illustrators.

In our featured theme, Race—Under Our Skin, writers and visual artists tell stories about the personal effects of racism, racial boundaries, social constructs, blood quantum laws, family half-buried truths. Willie Pugh’s photographs of An Alabama Family’s Funeral are loving testaments without words. Cover artist Tatiana Garmendia’s “models are all survivors of extreme experiences. They have survived war; have killed, or sustained attempts on their own lives.” Her human figures express existential questions of morality via their images of suffering and sublimation. Canadian writer Dave Holt reviews the poems of several mixed-blood Native American poets, including Sherman Alexie and Deborah Miranda. Georgia McDade examines the relevant question: is the U.S. a post-racial society since electing President Obama? Elizabeth Woody explores the history and traditions of her people on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, traditions still observed, in her memoir The Long Memory. Mariana Romo-Carmona’s memories of being a FOB (fresh off the boat) immigrant, and (later) lesbian of color in mid-sixties New York, are filtered through the lenses of shared experiences with her family in Welcome to America.