A review by asolis
A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South by

reflective fast-paced

3.5

People find it easy to dismiss the South as a collection of homogenous red states that deserve what's coming to them. I hoped this book would be something I could point to and say, read this; see us. See the necessary reckoning, the ache, but also the power, the joy,  and the gumption. 
It's an eclectic mix, with some essays coming across as more personal than geographical. At first the mix lacked cohesion and fell short of my high expectations, but by the end the collection started to coalesce into something like what I hoped for.