Hafizah Augustus Geter on THE BLACK PERIOD: ON PERSONHOOD, RACE, AND ORIGIN

"I did nothing but read the entire time I was writing this….literally every waking moment, I was doing some type of research and a lot of research I did for this book was on joy and celebration and on community. Because, yes, we're going through all of these things, but there's a reason the cover is bright and celebratory, because that's also where the book goes, where the journey goes." Hafizah Augustus Geter covers an incredible amount of ground in her memoir The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin: past and present, able-bodied and disabled, home and away, grief and love. She joins us on the show to talk about her family's story, her father's art (which appears in full color throughout the book), who gets to make history and why, her literary influences and more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer.

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The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter

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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Year of The Tiger by Alice Wong

Border and Rule by Harsha Walia

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