Roots, Routes, and Reckonings: On Blackness and Belonging in North America

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2023-02-22

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Thompson, Debra

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Dr. Debra Thompson is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state and inequality in democratic societies. She is the author of The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging in North America (Simon & Schuster, 2022), finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction. This lecture discusses her new book on histories and experiences of Blackness in Canada and the USA.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14801

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