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What A Detective Novel And A Memoir Both Have To Say About Black American Life
What A Detective Novel And A Memoir Both Have To Say About Black American Life
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15 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2021
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At first glance, journalist Dawn Turner's book Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood and detective novelist Walter Mosley's Down The River Unto The Sea don't have a ton in common. The former takes place in Chicago and focuses on the tough childhoods of Turner, her sister and her best friend; the latter takes readers to the streets of New York, where a cop-turned-private eye investigates police corruption. But in today's episode, each author talks to Michel Martin about how both their stories illustrate systems that treat Black Americans unfairly, and what that says about justice in the U.S.
Released:
Oct 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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