Art for the End Times: Who gets to come of age in America?
b'We were all kids once, and time forces all of us to grow up sooner or later, but not all coming-of-age stories are the same. In this episode of Art for the End Times, Lyta sits down with superstar writer Bertrand Cooper to discuss coming-of-age films, class, the politics of pop culture representation, and whose stories get told\\u2014and who gets to tell them\\u2014on the silver screen.
Bertrand Cooper is a writer whose work focuses on the intersection of poverty, Black America, education, and popular culture. Read Bertrand\\u2019s seminal essay, published in 2021 in Current Affairs, \\u201cWho Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?\\u201d
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