Hafizah Augustus Geter on THE BLACK PERIOD: ON PERSONHOOD, RACE, AND ORIGIN
\u201cI did nothing but read the entire time I was writing this\u2026.literally\xa0every waking moment, I was doing some type of research and a lot of research I did for this book was on joy and celebration and on community. Because, yes, we're going through\xa0all of\xa0these things, but there's a reason the cover is bright and celebratory, because that's also where the book goes, where the journey goes.\u201d\xa0Hafizah\xa0Augustus\xa0Geter\xa0covers an incredible amount\xa0of ground in her memoir\xa0The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin: past and present, able-bodied and disabled, home and away, grief and love. She joins us on the show to talk about her family\u2019s story, her father\u2019s art (which appears in full color throughout the book), who gets to make history and why, her literary influences and more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.
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Featured Books:\xa0
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin\xa0by\xa0Hafizah\xa0Augustus\xa0Geter\xa0
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The Yellow House by Sarah Broom\xa0
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer\xa0
Year of The Tiger by Alice Wong\xa0
Border and Rule by Harsha Walia\xa0
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A complete transcript of this episode is available here.\xa0