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.

Books

• 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)
• Ed Linn
• Joey Poole
• David Puretz

• 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
• Jason Reynolds
• 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
• The Bible
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Even Cow Girls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
• Ernest Hemingway
• Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Everything Else

• Ramones
• The Clash
• Fugazi
• Light the Fuse and Run
• Snoop Dogg
• Public Enemy
• James Brown
• 94.7 The Wave (Los Angeles, CA)
• 93.5 KDay (Los Angeles, CA)
• Mekhi Phifer
• (O) Othello (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)
• Julia Stiles
• 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)
• Josh Hartnett
• Save the Last Dance (Thomas Carter, 2001)
• Ghostface Killah
• Wu Tang Clan
• Dolly Parton
• Lena Horne
• Dissect (Cole Cuchna | Spotify)
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West, 2010)
• Kanye West
• Damn (Kendrick Lamar, 2017)
• Going Clear (HBO)
• Bob Marley
• “The L.A. Riots: 25 years later” (The Los Angeles Times Staff, The Los Angeles Times)
• O. J. Simpson
• Anita Hill
• Writing Workshops Los Angeles
• UCLA Extension
• Columbia College Chicago
• Allen Iverson
• Steph Curry
• The Nod (Gimlet)
• The Read (Loud Speakers Network)
• Still Processing (The New York Times)
• “Six Degrees: Music Edition” (The Nod, Gimlet)
• Curtis Mayfield
• Barack Obama’s Summer Playlist 2019
• Lizzo
• DeBarge
• “Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)” (The Stacks)

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