Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose previous books are the poetry collections 49th Parallel Psalm and Performance Bond and the anthology Bluesprint. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called the Contact Zone Crew. He teaches English at Emily Carr University and Coquitlam College in Vancouver.
Introduction
Pheneticizing Versus Passing
Blackvoice and Stately Ways: Isaac Dickson, Mifflin Gibbs, and Black
British Columbia's First Trials of Authenticity
Seven Routes to Hogan's Alley and Vancouver's Black Community
The Repossession of Fred Booker
Alexis Mazurin, the Hot Sauce Posse, and Black History Month on the Edge
Turntable Poetry, Mixed-Race, and Schizophonophilia
Obama and Language
