Ep. 125 Wandering and Wondering with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins author of This Will Be My Undoing joins the podcast today to discuss her newest books Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. Morgan shares details of the evolution of the book, the complex relationships between Black and Indigenous people, and how the lack of documentation has helped to obscure Black histories.
The Stacks Book Club selection for August is Sula by Toni Morrison. We will discuss the book with Brit Bennett on August 26th.
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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
Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 (Harlem, NY)
Gullah Gullah Island (Nickelodeon)
"#PublishingPaidMe and a Day of Action Reveal an Industry Reckoning" (Concepción de León and Elizabeth A. Harris, The New York Times)
Watchmen (HBO, 2019)
The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)
Still Processing (The New York Times)
"Reparations for Aunt Jemima!" (Still Processing, The New York Times)
Nocturne at Bethesda by Arna Bontemps
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Sula by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The White Card by Claudia Rankine
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
"Ghansah’s ‘Explainers’ Goes to RH" (Rachel Deahl, Publisher's Weekly)
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