Thursday, December 27, 2012
Tarantino Talks to Gates: A Podcast Special
Hear The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., chat with the Django Unchained director about the n-word and a possible sequel.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Year in Review: The Root Staff Edition
This week on The Confab: From 2 Chainz and Blue Ivy to "YOLO" and political Twitter racism, our staff recalls and debates the highs and lows of the past 12 months.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Hues of Black Folk
This week on The Confab: Join Associate Editor Brett Johnson as he chats with staff writer and White House correspondent Jenée Desmond-Harris, contributor Gene Demby and PR exec Rachel Noerdlinger about CNN's special on colorism in the black community.
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Monday, December 3, 2012
The Audio Book Club on NW
This month, Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin, and Brow Beat editor David Haglund visit the London of Zadie Smith’s fascinating novel NW. The three discuss the novel’s wild stylistic and tonal shifts; its view of race, class, and fate in the council estates of London; and how it was predicted by Smith’s famous 2008 essay, “Two Paths for the Novel.” And they even Google Map a bunch of the book’s northwest London locations and find them exactly as described in the book—a truly modern novel, as Rosin notes, “meant to be Googled.”
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hanna rosin
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London
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Two Paths for the Novel
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Zadie Smith
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