A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Carter Mathes
About
Carter Mathes is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. He has written a book, Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature After Civil Rights, and is working on a second, Ecologies of Funk. He has published essays in venues including Small Axe, Contemporary Literature, Oxford American, Callaloo, and African American Review.