The Problem With 'Not Seeing Race'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 22, 2021

Rebecca Carroll, former cultural critic at WNYC and the author of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2021), shares her story of growing up as a Black child adopted by white parents and her search for identity.

→ Rebecca Carroll will be doing a virtual book event with the California bookstore Book Passage on Thursday, March 25th at 8pm Eastern, that's 5 Pacific Time. More info here.

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