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/

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. 

More about the word nice and its role in racism and it's role as the "nice guy."

Timestamps

(1:00) To Kill a Mockingbird

(2:50) Book: Tell Me Who You Are

(6:47) Trash throwers

(10:15) University friends

(11:08) anti-Asian racism

(13:53) Generousity research

(16:25) Nice jerk

(17:30) Nice guy

(20:00) Tool of manipulation 

(21:00) Where are you from? 

(23:15) Racist jokes

(24:15) Chris Rock

(25:00) Teacher

(29:00) Blonde hair 

Two friends, one brown, one white, unpack the word "nice" and its role in racism within the phrase "Nice White People."