Ep. 84 We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin-- The Stacks Book Club (Chris L. Terry)

The Stacks Book Club is tackling a post-post racial satirical novel this week in our reading of We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin. To help us discuss what that even means, and what makes a satire work, and so much more is author Chris L. Terry (Black Card).

There are minor spoilers in this episode.

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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.

• We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

• Black Card by Chris L. Terry

• The Sellout by Paul Beatty

• Black No More by George S. Schuyler

• New People by Danzy Senna

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• The Grove (Los Angeles, CA)

• Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary)

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• The Black Panther Party

• Black Lives Matter

• Will Smith

• "Rob Parker calls RG3 a 'cornball brother,' says he's 'not one of us'" (Will Brinson, CBS Sports)

• Robert Griffin III

• Russel Wilson

• Jason Whitlock

• Rob Parker

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