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Talking Books presents Dr. Erica Ball

Dr. Ball will discuss Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory, a collection of scholarly essays she edited. The book assesses the ways that the wildly popular book and its 1977 television adaptation recast representations of slavery and the black family, reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights, and generated discussions about race, gender, violence, and power in the United States and abroad.