Multiracial Family Man

Ep. 161: Hannah Carmona Dias is a Writer who currently resides in Tennessee. Beautiful, Wonderful, Strong Little Me is her debut book which tackles a topic she herself has struggled with. In addition to writing Hannah is also a wife, mother, founder of Collective Art School of Tennessee, YouTuber, and actress. When Hannah is not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family and two cats, dog, and iguana. She also enjoys binge-watching shows on Netflix, posting way too many GIFs on Twitter, and avoiding housework.

For more on Hannah check out her website at: https://www.hannahcarmonadias.com/

Take a listen as Hannah talks about her Latinx heritage, being a Multiracial family mom, and the reasons that prompted her to write her book.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 160: J-L Cauvin is a former criminal prosecutor-turned-comedian. He also is a Multiracial man with Irish and Haitian roots. As a result, he has a keen eye for race, racial dynamics, and racism in the criminal justice system, in the entertainment world, and in life. Also, after almost two decades as a comic, J-L has keen insights into the changing economics of the comedy and entertainment business.

J-L has been featured on The Late Late Show, NESN Comedy All Stars, Comics Unleashed, ESPN's The Dan Lebatard Show and is a regular on The Adam Carolla Show. And, he travels the country performing in America's most prestigious (and non-prestigious) comedy clubs. He has made a name for himself within comedy for his blog which offers a one-of-a-kind insider honesty about the business and his sketch/impression videos.

J-L's act is incredibly diverse and has led to five stand up albums: 2006′s Racial Chameleon, 2008′s Diamond Maker, 2012′s Too Big To Fail and 2013′s Keep My Enemies Closer, and 2016's Israeli Tortoise, which hit #1 on the iTunes comedy chart. He also released 2017's Fireside Craps, an entire album as Donald Trump which hit #3 on the iTunes comedy chart.

For more on J-L, check out his website at: http://jlcauvin.com/

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 159: Justin Williams is Assistant Professor, History at the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Center for Worker Education.In addition to teaching, Justin is currently in the process of publishing his research on the history of Pan-Africanism in Ghanaian politics.

Justin also is a stand-up comic with a unique stand-up act, complete with deadpan delivery and a knack for sarcastically pointing out the absurd. As one of New York City's funniest up-and-coming comics, Justin has performed at comedy festivals across the United States and Canada. He has also been featured on Comedy Central's Jokes.com, Mashable, SiriusXM's Raw Dog Comedy/Foxxhole Radio/Dean Obeidallah Show, The Elite Daily, Men's Health Magazine, The Kansas City Star, 'Morning Buzz Live' on VH1, 'Trial by Laughter' on Comcast, 'Laughs' on Fox and 'The Comedy Show Show' on Seeso.

For more on Justin, please go to: https://justinwilliamscomedy.com/bio/ and https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/justin-williams

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 158: Ligia Cushman is an Afro-Latina with Dominican roots who grew up in New York City. She is married to a White man, and together they have a multiracial son, whom they adopted. Ligia and her family live in the South, where she is an active advocate in the adoption space.

Listen as she talks to Alex about her Multiracial experience, her views on race and adoption, and how Multiracial experience differs from North to South.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 157: Jasmine Helm is a fashion historian. She grew up in La Puente, CA and New York City and has studied fine art, art history, fashion and museum studies on both coasts. Jasmine has also worked as curator and archivist in Los Angeles and New York. She is passionate about exploring the cross-cultural intersections between history, art, material culture, fashion, and people. Her current research focuses on the dress and textile culture of the Afro-Indigenous groups in the Bluefields coastal region of Nicaragua.

In 2015, Jasmine co-founded Unravel Podcast, as a means to fill a gap in the canon and lexicon of fashion. She and her co-hosts want to educate the public about the importance of fashion in history and daily life and inspire conversation and discussion. Their goals include: 1) Collaborating with experts in their field, to expand the conversation, 2) Speaking beyond the canon of traditional fashion media and history, 3) Being on the "frontline" of solidifying fashion history as a serious subject to study and learn. Their purpose is to be a conduit for understanding fashion and its place in the world in the past as well as the present.

For more about Unravel the Podcast and about Jasmine, please go to: https://www.unravelpodcast.com/

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 156: Tamer Kattan was born an outsider and that's where he stayed. This Egyptian-born American was born into a family of Muslims, Christians and Jews, leaving him incredibly comfortable in the uncomfortable.

From school yard bullies to an abusive father, comedy quickly became a weapon of this underdog.

Tamer began his comedy career in Los Angeles and New York, but very quickly began to tour internationally. His over-seas experiences include tours for the troops in Afghanistan, performing at the American University in Cairo (during the Egyptian revolution) and the Edinburgh fringe in Scotland, where he received three 4 star reviews from international press. Towards the end of 2013, he moved to London for 1 year (following the path of his two biggest comedic influences, Patrice O'Neal and Bill Hicks). Tamer was most recently featured on Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity event with Todd Glass and Hannibal Buress, won the 2015 World Series of Comedy and has TV & Radio credits on BBC and SkyTV in the UK as well as in the U.S. on Fox, HULU, HGTV & truTV.

An award winning international comedian with TV and commercial credits in the United States and UK, Tamer has a deep understanding of the human condition.

A regular at the Comedy Store, Improv and Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. This is one comic you do not want to miss live.

Listen as Tamer talks to Alex about his incredibly unique, multicultural, multireligious, multiethnic, immigrant experience.

For more on Tamer, please check out his website: http://tamerkattan.wpengine.com/

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 155: Maya Williams is a multigenerational, multiracial woman. Her father is Black, White, and Chickahominy; her mother is of Black, White, and Cherokee descent. Her father has a mixed mother and had a black father (d. 2007); her mother has a White father and a Black and Cherokee mother.

Given this rich, multiracial background, Maya has been writing and editing the Race Section of The Tempest, pursuing interfaith work under the Interfaith Youth Core as a Better Together Coach, and completing a double major in social work and English.

She talks with Alex about what it means to hail from a family that has multiracial roots several generations back.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 154: Julie Lythcott-Haims served as Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising for more than a decade at Stanford University, where she received the Dinkelspiel Award for her contributions to the undergraduate experience. A mother of two teenagers, she has spoken and written widely on the phenomenon of helicopter parenting, and her work has appeared on TEDx talks and in Forbes and the Chicago Tribune.

Recently, she penned her book Real American: A Memoir, which she sat down with Alex to discuss. Take a listen.

For more on Julie please go to: https://www.julielythcotthaims.com/

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 153: Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America, available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers. The book recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogeneous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation.

Listen as Richard describes the book and what he has unearthed about institutionalized and governmentally created and enforced racist policies.

For more on Richard, please see his bio at the EPI website: https://www.epi.org/people/richard-rothstein/

Richard welcomes comments at [email protected].

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 152: Angela Nissel is the author of two books: the national best-selling comedic memoir The Broke Diaries and the award-winning Mixed. In addition to books, she's also a television writer and producer. What has she done recently? Tyler the Creator's The Jellies airing late 2017 on Adult Swim. She's also written for Scrubs, Til Death, and The Boondocks.

Angela (originally from Philadelphia, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania) co-founded OkayPlayer.com with her friend Ahmir Thompson (Questlove) of The Roots.

When not writing, Angela, who is now based in Hollywood, is giving back to the community in her role as a board member for The Unusual Suspects.

For more on Angela, check out her website: http://angelanissel.com/

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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