Nostalgia for a Trumpet

Susan Anderson teaches, speaks, and writes about African American history, politics, and culture, with an emphasis on California and the West. She is the managing director of ""L.A. as Subject,"" an association of libraries and archives hosted by the University of Southern California. She has been a Visiting Professor at Pitzer College in Claremont and is a contributor to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion. Her poetry, short fiction, articles and essays have appeared in The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century (University of California Press) and in publications such as The Nation, LA Weekly, LA Architect, Mother Jones, Quarterly Review of Black Literature, The Massachusetts Review, ONTHEBUS, First Intensity, The Antioch Review, Fast Talk/Full Volume, Xavier Review, 5 AM, Art Against Racism/L'Art Contre Le Racisme (an international exhibition in Vancouver, B.C.), The Black Scholar, Electrum, rara avis, Ten Contemporary American Poets, Life in L.A.: A Portfolio of Women's Writing, and Obsidian II: A Review of Black Literature, among others.