Her essay, “The Girl with the Good Hair” appeared in the anthology, The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, edited by Cathy J. Shlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts with an afterword by Heidi W. Durrow, published by 2Leaf Press. 2Leaf Press also published Dedria’s essay, “Was My Father Just Another Pig” in their Black Lives Have Always Mattered anthology edited by Abiodun Oyewole. Dedria also published an essay entitled “When the Riot Came Home” on salon.com about the 1967 Detroit riot. www.2leafpress.org
