{"id":53069,"date":"2017-03-29T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53069"},"modified":"2017-03-29T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:06:34","slug":"race-place-and-community-a-conversation-with-author-emily-raboteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53069","title":{"rendered":"Race, Place and Community: A Conversation with Author Emily Raboteau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race, Place and Community: A Conversation with Author Emily Raboteau<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

DCORE: Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity<\/a>
\nDuke University, Durham, North Carolina
\n2017-03-28<\/p>\n

Micah English<\/strong>, T \u201917<\/p>\n

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\nEmily Raboteau<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

Award-winning author Emily Raboteau<\/a> will visit Duke and Durham this week as part of the Duke School of Medicine\u2019s ongoing series, A Conversation about Race<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She will be interviewed by Mark Anthony Neal<\/a>, a professor of black popular culture in the Department of African and African American studies. Neal, is also the co-director of the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity<\/a> and the host of the weekly webcast, Left of Black<\/em>. A portion of the event will be recorded live for a future episode of Left of Black<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event, \u201cRace, Place and Community<\/a>,\u201d is free and open to the public and will be held at 8 a.m., Thursday, March 30 in the Great Hall at Trent Semans Center. Light breakfast will be served. Those unable to attend can watch a live webcast of the event at bit.ly\/EmilyRaboteau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Raboteau, an English professor at the City College of New York, will sign copies of her latest book, Searching for Zion<\/em><\/a>, following the talk.<\/p>\n

Organized by the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the event co-sponsors include the Duke School of Medicine, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Center on Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship, and Left of Black.<\/p>\n

Searching for Zion<\/em> is a work of creative nonfiction that chronicles Raboteau\u2019s search for a place to call \u201chome,\u201d as a biracial woman who never felt at home in America. Recently DCORE was able to speak with Raboteau about being of mixed race, blackness and the racial color line…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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