A.D. Carson arrived in Charlottesville on May 15, 2017. It was just two days after white nationalists gathered at the Robert E. Lee statue in Market Street Park, protesting the city’s plans to remove it.
The poet, rap artist, activist and newly hired UVA professor watched the chaos unfold in a city he would soon call home.
In his new book, “Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir,” Carson describes the protest and others that would erupt later that year in August and result in multiple deaths. What he witnessed on both occasions is now featured, through music, prose, poetry and rap, in his 400-page book that was released on Nov. 19…