My favorite book as a child was The People Could Fly. I stared with fascination at the illustrations of people with backs…
Ada Chinara
Ada Chinara (Ada C.M. Thomas) is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She specializes in literatures of the African Diaspora in English, French and Spanish. A public humanities scholar, she has worked at cultural institutions including Penn Center in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, and as a Public Scholar through the New Jersey Council for the Humanities’ Public Scholars’ Project. Her forthcoming manuscript, Aminata: Abbey Lincoln’s Song of Faith, will be published by Rutgers University Press.