{"id":54700,"date":"2017-07-30T23:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54700"},"modified":"2017-08-01T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:14:04","slug":"south-boston-growing-up-southie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54700","title":{"rendered":"South Boston: Growing Up Southie"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Boston: Growing Up Southie<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Detour<\/a>
\nBoston, Massachusetts<\/a>
\n2017-07-29<\/p>\n

Narrators:<\/p>\n

Jennifer J. Roberts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pat Nee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennifer J. Roberts<\/a> and ex-gangster Pat Nee<\/a> take you to their ‘hood<\/a>\u2019 for a surprising story of growing up Black in Southie<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Southie<\/a> \u2013 it’s got a bit of a reputation. Gangsters, busing desegregation; but most of all, the type of close knit Irish community that gave rise to it all. Although her family came here from Ireland<\/a> in the 1800’s, Jennifer J. Roberts looked different from almost everyone in this neighborhood. Though she never knew him, her grandfather was black. In this Detour, Jennifer will show you Southie as only someone who knows it as both an insider and outsider can. She\u2019ll take you to a diner that’s as quintessential Southie as it gets, and introduce you to the surrogate father who took her under his wing \u2013 the notorious criminal Irishman, Pat Nee. As she shows you the most poignant places of her youth, where navigating identity in the racially charged era of the Boston Busing Crisis<\/a> was a constant, you\u2019ll see how friends, enemies, and unlikely allies can be as much of a home as any house with a roof\u2026 Because people in Southie may seem a little rough around the edges, but they\u2019re always willing to lend a hand if you get into any trouble. And by the end of your journey, you\u2019ll come to see that like Jennifer herself, South Boston<\/a> isn\u2019t just one thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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