In this week’s episode, we chat with Dr. Candis Watts Smith (@ProfCandis), assistant professor of public policy at UNC. Her first book, Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity, was published by NYU Press in 2014. We talk about her book and about racial and political attitudes among millennials in the U.S. Most controversially, she shares and defends her unpopular opinion on Yaa Gyasi’s novel Homegoing, and provokes some thought and discussion.
Music this week comes from Tanzanian rapper Rosa Ree, and her song is “Up in the Air.”
Books, Links, & Articles
- “First Malaria Vaccine to Pilot in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in 2018” by Conor Gaffey
- The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014 (Perspectives on Global Health) by Melissa Graboyes
- Black Mosaic: The Politics of Pan-Ethnic Diversity by Candis Watts Smith
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe