All right, we are down to our last three cities for the live in the stacks tour, and if the first two stops were any indication, you do not want to miss this tour.

I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th. I will be in New York City with KSA layman on September 25th, and I will be in Los Angeles on October 18th with three guests.

Yes, three guests, three of my favorite friends of the podcast, Rachel Lindsay, Chelsea Devantes, and Sam Sanders.

The show promises a night of big laughs, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could possibly imagine.

Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour right now before they sell out.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books, and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today is the stacks book club day, and I am joined again by David Dennis Jr.

the author of the movement made us to discuss our book club pick, White Knee Grows, when cornrows were invoked, and other thoughts on cultural appropriation by Lauren Michelle Jackson.

This incredible collection of essays combines cultural criticism and rigorous scholarship to examine the co-opting and commodification of black creativity for the purposes of white profit and power.

David and I also have a very special treat to kick off this week's episode.

Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.

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If not for them, there would be no show.

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And be sure to stay tuned to the end of today's episode to find out what our July book club pick will be.

Okay, and now it's time for my conversation with David Dennis Jr. on our book club pick, White Knee Grows.

All right, everybody. This is the episode you've all been waiting for not because it's a book club book episode, but because David Dennis is back and we are going to start the show by taste testing each other's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

We'll get to White Knee Grows by Lauren Michelle Jackson. I promise you, but it's too important for us to skip over this part of the show. We're going to try not to chew into our microphones, but also hopefully Christian, my genius editor can help us here.

All right, David, welcome back to the stacks.

Thanks for having me. I'm holding cold bread in my hand and I'm holding lightly very upset about the cold bread bread.

Okay, we're taking our bites. Everybody before White Knee Grows, we have white white bread. White bread.

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