Amal Ahmed, “Illustrating the Messy Reality of Life as an Interracial Family,” The Atlantic, April 12, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/in-mira-jacobs-good-talk-talking-about-race-with-your-family-isnt-easy/586954/. |
Season 2, Episode 11: Writer Thomas Chatterton WilliamsPosted in Audio, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2015-01-08 19:30Z by Steven |
Season 2, Episode 11: Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Mixed Experience
2015-01-08
Heidi Durrow, Host
We continue the second part of the season with writer Thomas Chatterton Williams author of Losing My Cool and the newly published essay in Virginia Quarterly Review “Black and Blue and Blond.”
Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American LifePosted in Audio, History, Interviews, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2014-10-22 18:23Z by Steven |
The Mixed Experience
2014-10-20
Heidi Durrow, Host
Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History
Stanford University
I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, a most excellent book by Stanford Professor Allyson Hobbs. She recently did a TED Talk about the role of grief in these narratives of racial crossing. The book very aptly and eloquently “examines how passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue to loss.” You will love this interview with Allyson Hobbs as she explains the inspiration for this book, a brief discussion on the idea of “passing as black” and much much more.