Fargo, N.D. – Gary Totten, English associate professor at NDSU, recently had his essay, “Geographies of Race and Mobility in Carl Rowan’s South of Freedom,” published in the new anthology, “Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American Travelogues and Fiction,” edited by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

In the essay, Totten examines Rowan’s travel narrative, “South of Freedom,” an account of his trip through the U.S. South in 1951 as an African American journalist for the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, and discusses how U.S. attitudes about race affected both his travel experiences and the resulting travel narrative.