By Cuts & Biases
The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.
A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught to generations of people in high school.
Topics: The racist Atticus in Go Set a Watchman. The novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. Playground memories of a Black Canadian girl in 1950’s Montreal.
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
Time Stamps
(00:00) introduction
(00:45) Interview Alisha
(5:00) Recap of Part 2, mob scene
(7:00) Alisha again
(7:50) book - Go Set a Watchman
(11:15) Interview Rachel
(16:15) New Yorker article
(20:03) book - White Fragility
(24:30) book -Deep South
(26:31) Alisha again
(28:41) Alisha again
(30:38) book - The Hate U Give
(32:55) Interview Gilbert
(39:20) book, Maya Angelou
(40:00) book, A Lesson Before Dying
(40:55) Interview Jessica
(48:15) Alisha again
(50:18) Interview Jessica
(59:00) Interview Jessica
Part 3
• A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught in high school to generations of people.
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
Part 2 is about the novel To Kill a Mockingbird's position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. And about a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal
This series is about:
how Shai, a brown woman, broke through being taught it from the white perspective and sought out a Black one.
the novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era.
a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
Re-reading to Kill a Mockingbird and its white perspective.
The N-word at school. Weaponizing niceness. "Respectable racism" in Canada in the post 9/11 era. The confidence to have race conversations. A anti-racism workshop for creative people.
Timestamps
(:20) Nice and ignorant
(4:14) Stereotyping
(5:15) High school social justice class
(14:30) N-word advice
(15:00) James Baldwin
(16:00) San Francisco Karen
(19:45) Xenophobia
(21:15) Post 9/11 era
(25:45) Book, See No Stranger
(29:30) Antiracism workshop
(31:30) Curly hair microaggression
(32:20) The nicest guys
(36:30) Retro rock haircuts
(39:10) Antiracism workshop
"Canadians are nice" & Minnesota Nice. The N-word. Get comfortable speaking up.
Timestamps
(1:45) Interview about N-word
(14:30) Minnesota Nice
Are you nice or not nice? Nice & kind explained by a guest (Rachel). This show is a mini class to prep for part 4 —and what to do when someone quotes the N-word. The show that was supposed to be part 3 will be part 4.
The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.