Episode Details

Dr. Debra Thompson (@debthompsonphd), talks about her poignant, profound and powerful book, The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging, about her journey back home. She weaves together insights on the politics of race and racialization and Black identity while discussing family history, growing up in Oshawa, and her experiences, in academic spaces in Chicago, in Ohio, in Portland, and in Canada.

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• The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompson

Reading List

• Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
• White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand
• Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
• The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada by Keith Banting and Debra Thompson

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