An episode of the Cuts & Biases podcast, hosted and produced by a brown Canadian woman who unlearned what she was taught about To Kill a Mockingbird in high school.
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Show Notes
PART 1, 20 minutes
Topic: This series isn’t only about this book. It’s a launch pad to discuss:
• how Shai, a brown woman, broke-through being taught the book from the white perspective and sought out a Black perspective.
• 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.
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird
Guest: Jessica North-O’Connell. Visit her website for her metaphysical services as a practitioner of soul realignment and property realignment to remove unwanted spiritual influences.
PART 2, 35 minutes
Topic: Canadian racism in the 1930s-1950s, Montreal’s Black porters in the depression era, and the guest, Jessica North O’Connell, talks about her Black father’s experience with racism as a boy in Montreal in the 1930s. He was about the same age as Jem is in the novel.
Books
- A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest Gaines
- Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
- Soul of America by Jon Meacham
- They Call Me George by Cecil Foster
PART 3, 1 hour
Topic: The jail scene continued from Part 2. The racist Atticus in Go Set a Watchman. Playground memories of a Black girl in 1950’s Montreal.
Video: 60 Minutes, The N-Word
Article: New Yorker, The Atticus We Always Knew by Dale Russakoff
Books
- A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest Gaines
- Deep South by Paul Theroux
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
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