I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,

on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge

white people about black history. I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host Katina and

Garendt. Today's topic is respectability. And we're joined by Dr. Tara Green. She's an award-winning

teacher, mentor, scholar who has degrees in English from Louisiana State University and Dillard

University. She has over 25 years of teaching experience. She's currently professor and former

director of African American

and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Her areas of research

include black gender studies, African American autobiographies and fiction, African women's

literature, African American parent-child relationships, and African-Americans in the South.

She's published numerous articles, four books, and is the editor of two.

We talk a little bit more about her most recent books,

the first being love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Denbar Nelson,

and See Me Naked, Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Inner War era.

We hope you enjoyed the discussion.

So we are so excited to have our next guest, Dr. Tara Green. She is a professor at UNC Greensboro.

She's an author, and she speaks directly to the topic of respectability.

I also notice that she's a storyteller, but I want you to, first of all, be welcome here,

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