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

• A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught in high school to generations of people.

• Montreal's Black community in the depression era and Canadian racism in the 1930s-1950s.

• Interview: The daughter of a Black Canadian artist who in 1933 was about the same age as Jem in the book.


Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/

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/