Dr. Susan Straight to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

For Trump, it almost seems that the fact of Obama, the fact of a black president, insulted him personally. The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011. But the bloody heirloom ensures the last laugh. Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own. And this too is whiteness. “Race is an idea, not a fact,” the historian Nell Irvin Painter has written, and essential to the construct of a “white race” is the idea of not being a nigger. Before Barack Obama, niggers could be manufactured out of Sister Souljahs, Willie Hortons, and Dusky Sallys. But Donald Trump arrived in the wake of something more potent—an entire nigger presidency with nigger health care, nigger climate accords, and nigger justice reform, all of which could be targeted for destruction or redemption, thus reifying the idea of being white. Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President,” The Atlantic, October 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/.

Dr. Susan Straight to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Dr. Susan Straight to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow
Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks)
Episode: #180-Susan Straight
When: Tuesday, 2010-11-09, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 16:00 CST, 14:00 PST)

Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing
University of California, Riverside

Susan Straight is an award-winning author of several novels that explore the Mixed experience. Join us for this discussion about her work, her life & her new novel Take One Candle Light a Room.

Download or listen to the podcast here.

Tags: Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow, Mixed Chicks Chat, Susan Straight

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