#JLFBoulder 2015: Skin Deep
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Channel: Jaipur Literature Festival · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism
Race history and memory, as well as melanin content and the color of one’s skin, impact identity in both obvious and subtle ways. A session that examines the politics of privilege and marginalization across a spectrum of mixed and morphing experiences of selfhood. Margo Lillian Jefferson is the author of Negroland: A Memoir and has won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Mira Jacob’s novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing examines the life of an Indian family transplanted to the American Southwest in the 1980s, where their exoticism and isolation created its own unique climate. Moderated by author Nayana Currimbhoy.
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