A Word: Diversity in the Diaspora
The American obsession with categorizing people by race isn\u2019t just a problem for our institutions. For multi-racial and multi-ethnic Americans, it can be intensely personal. On today\u2019s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by journalist Natasha Alford. She shares her own unique experience navigating America\u2019s complicated ideas about race in her new book, American Negra: A Memoir. Alford shares how her African American and Puerto Rican heritage shaped her understanding of race in her early life, and how those ideas were challenged when she attended Harvard University and later became a journalist.\xa0\xa0\n\nGuest: Natasha Alford, author of American Negra: A Memoir\n\nPodcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola\n\nWant more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking \u201cTry Free\u201d at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices