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Between the World and Me

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Featuring Jody ArmourRaphael BosticWilliam Resh, and Danielle Williams In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we’re continuing our conversation about race in America, with the book Toni Morrison calls “required reading.” Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is ostensibly a letter to his son about growing up a black male in America. This prize winning correspondent of The Atlantic tackles the very big questions of our time. How do we find a way to live in our country, with all its fraught history and its fraught present? How can he teach his son to be black in America? Coates sheds light on our brutal past, confronts our present with raw lyrical truth, and though our panelists disagree on this point, offers a way forward. To listen to the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast discussion of Between the World and Me, click the orange arrow in the Soundcloud player at the top of this post. Or you can download it and subscribe through Soundcloud or iTunes! Between the World and Me Follow us on Twitter.  Follow Jody @NiggaTheory , Raphael @RaphaelBostic, William @billresh, and Danielle @BDanielleW

Next Month …

Tune in next time for a discussion of What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan. In a complete departure from the vein we’ve been travelling lately, we’re looking back at the Reagan White House with Noonan’s memoir.

Links to things we talk about:

Derrick Bell Derrick Bell’s Space Traders Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition by Michael Lipsky Prince George’s County, MD Implicit Bias Test (unconscious bias) Human brain recognizes and reacts to race, UTSC researchers discover Racial Profiling Connie Rice – Reforming the LAPD Black Lives Matter Sisyphus

Of Further Interest:

The Slate Academy – The History of American Slavery This podcast is produced by Jonathan Schwartz and Aubrey Hicks.

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