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On Passing
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Nov 18, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously about the phenomenon of passing in her novels. We're telling the stories of these women and asking what they can tell us about race in librarianship and in literature. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/passing
Released:
Nov 18, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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