Michele Norris, OUR HIDDEN CONVERSATIONS: What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris joins Zibby to discuss OUR HIDDEN CONVERSATIONS, a transformative, candid, and unsettling book on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project, which asks people to distill their thoughts on race in just six words. Michele describes her book's unique, scrapbook-like feel (it has stories, essays, and photographs collected over three decades) and then explains how the six-word stories are just a starting point for important conversations on race. She also touches on her personal experiences with race and the impact of storytelling and ends with her best advice for aspiring authors.
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| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is |
| 0:56.1 | basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Michelle Norris is the author of Our Hidden Conversations, |
| 1:07.1 | what Americans really think about race and identity. Michelle is one of America's |
| 1:11.7 | most trusted voices in journalism, earning several honors over a long career, including Peabody, |
| 1:16.8 | Emmy, DuPont, and Goldsmith Awards. She is a columnist for the Washington Post opinion section, |
| 1:22.1 | the host of the Audible Original Podcast Your Mama's Kitchen, and from 2002 to 2012, she was a co-host of NPR's All Things |
| 1:30.0 | Considered. Michelle is also the founding director of the Race Card Project, a Peabody Award-winning |
| 1:34.8 | narrative archive where people around the world share their reflections on identity in just |
| 1:38.7 | six words. Her first book, The Grace of Silence, was named one of the best books of the year |
| 1:43.6 | by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Kansas City Star. Before joining NPR, Norris spent almost 10 years as a reporter for ABC News covering politics, policy, and the dynamics of social change. Early in her career, she also worked as a staff writer for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. |
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