The Cultural Price of Assimilation for Middle Class Blacks
Professor of African-American studies, Gerald Early. He'll talk with Terry about the dilemma of being a middle-class African American intellectual, and how that kind of life can separate a person from the black community. His new book is "Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation."
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Other segments from the episode on March 17, 1993
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 17, 1993: Interview with Abdulaziz Sachedina; Interview with Gerald Early; Review of Veronica Jane O'Mara and Fionnuala O'Reilly's book "A Trifle, a Coddle, a Fry."
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