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James Baldwin鈥檚 鈥楲ittle Houses鈥� and Abel Meeropol鈥檚 鈥楽trange Fruit鈥�
Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of African and African American Studies as well as Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University, provides a taster of his eagerly anticipated publication of his major study on James Baldwin. Speaking on Baldwin鈥檚 former teacher, Abel Meeropol, writer of 'Strange Fruit' which later became an anthem of the anti-lynching, anti-white supremacist movement, Robert offers a snippet of Baldwin鈥檚 young life.
Transcript available here:听www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-james-baldwins-little-houses-and-abel-meeropols-strange-fruit
Speaker: Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Studies of Women,听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Gender and Sexuality at听Harvard University
Image: James Baldwin taken in Hyde Park, London, 1969, by Allan Warren听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 (This image is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0:听)
Executive producer: Paul Gilroy
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu
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