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Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and two story collections, Asunder and Good People. He teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Solstice MFA Program of Pine Manor College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

Reflections on Racist Language, From the Schoolyard to the Kitchen
May 15, 2020  By Robert Lopez
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