Reconciling Ancestry and Identity

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 24, 2018

Alex Wagner, co-host of Showtime’s The Circus, contributor to CBS News and The Atlantic, and the author of Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World, 2018), reflects on identity and belonging as she explored a mystery in her own mixed race ancestry.

→ You can also catch Alex Wagner live in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates on Thursday, April 26 at 92nd St Y at 7 pm and on Monday, April 30 at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn at 7 pm.

 

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