135: On the Road: Adventures with Claudie

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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It's time for another American Girl road trip! In the second Claudie book, Brit Bennett takes us from Claudie's neighborhood in Harlem to her grandmother's house in Shellman, Georgia. Along the way, Claudie learns that there are different "rules" about living in the South and the North. She also sees a new side of her mother, an investigative journalist inspired by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. When Claudie returns to Harlem, she takes one of her grandmother's stories with her and offers an uplifting finale at the boardinghouse benefit concert. We discuss both of Claudie’s worlds and a bit about what’s happening in ours.

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0:00.0	Hello fancy thing.
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0:02.0	Hello,
0:12.8	you here.
0:15.4	Hello everyone. This is Mary and I'm so excited to join you before the
0:19.3	episode starts to announce a new project that I'll be launching on March 1st.
0:24.0	I'm so excited to bring you a newsletter called Landline.
0:28.0	Landline is a pop culture and history newsletter from me, your millennial friend,
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0:34.9	willing to talk on the phone. It will include writing on pop culture, reviews of books,
0:40.0	music, TV, and film, and conversations and interviews with people I respect, all about
0:46.2	the obsessions I think about through a historical lens.
0:50.0	And paid members will get a weekly podcast episode from me called Hello Friend, you just heard
0:55.2	the theme music at the start, and each episode will essentially be me riffing on a topic of interest
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1:15.0	I'm calling it Landline as an embrace of the millennial technology, along with AIM,
1:20.0	that was my first means of sharing my hot takes, deep dives,
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