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The Essay Thinking Black Episodes

    Michael Manley

    5/5 Writer Colin Grant asks who is black and who isn’t – and who gets to decide?

    Sandra Laing

    4/5 Writer Colin Grant explores the history and consequences of racial passing.

    Bert Williams

    3/5 Writer Colin Grant explores the history and evolution of minstrelsy.

    John Howard Griffin

    2/5 Colin Grant examines how black people often experience invisibility in wider society.

    Peter Fryer

    1/5 Colin Grant explores whether it’s appropriate for a white writer to write black history.