Ep. 83 What is "Black Enough" with Chris L. Terry
Today on The Stacks we welcome author of Black Card, Chris L. Terry. Chris shares how he balanced his book to pull from his personal experiences as a mixed kid in Richmond, VA, and still maintain a wholly fictional premise and characters. We also talk about the racist idea of being "Black enough", and why Chris doesn't believe in having a go-to book recommendation.
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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
Black Card by Chris L. Terry
Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan
Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
Going Clear by Lawerence Wright
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
New People by Danzy Senna
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Vroman's Bookstore (Pasadena, CA)
Zero Fade by Chris L. Terry
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson
Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
Raw by Lamont "U-God" Hawkins
The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala
Miles by Miles Davis
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Dream from My Father by Barack Obama
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore
How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore
The Bull Loving Truth by Ian Lawrence Campbell Swordy
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Even Cow Girls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
94.7 The Wave (Los Angeles, CA)
93.5 KDay (Los Angeles, CA)
(O) Othello (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)
Save the Last Dance (Thomas Carter, 2001)
Dissect (Cole Cuchna | Spotify)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West, 2010)
Damn (Kendrick Lamar, 2017)
Going Clear (HBO)
"The L.A. Riots: 25 years later" (The Los Angeles Times Staff, The Los Angeles Times)
The Nod (Gimlet)
The Read (Loud Speakers Network)
Still Processing (The New York Times)
"Six Degrees: Music Edition" (The Nod, Gimlet)
"Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)" (The Stacks)
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