Primary Reading:
Jaqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone (Riverhead Books, 2019).
Supplemental Readings:
Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Case for Reparations. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Victor Luckerson. Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From The Ashes. https://www.theringer.com/2018/6/28/17511818/black-wall-street-oklahoma-greenwood-destruction-tulsa
Chris M. Messer, Thomas E. Shriver, and Alison E. Adams. The Destruction of Black Wall Street: Tulsa’s 1921 Riots and the Eradication of Accumulated Wealth, (American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2018).
Participants:
Valerie, Kieran, Sam, Geena, Thomas, Ginny, Sanami, Alexa, Adam.
Soundtrack:
All music for the following soundtrack were selected based on references by the author in the novel.
Podcast theme music is sampled from History by the samplers
extraordinaire, Thievery Corporation, featuring Mr. Lif & Sitali
17 Days –Piano & a Microphone 1983 version • Prince
I’d Rather Go Blind • Etta James
One Day I’ll Fly Away • Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden
Is It Because I’m Black • Syl Johnson
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free • Nina Simone
Memories of You • Erroll Garner
In Times Like These • Mavis Staples

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