Podcast
Behind the Bastards
It was referenced as a book containing information about Clarence Thomas's time at college, specifically his experiences with black nationalism and his feelings of alienation in white spaces.
moving to a white institution in the north repeated the trauma of moving to a white seminary in the south, which Thomas described in an interview with the crisis the magazine of the NAACP thus quote....
— Episode: Part One: The Clarence Thomas Story
Episode: Part One: The Clarence Thomas Story
It was referenced as a book containing information about Clarence Thomas's time at college, specifically his experiences with black nationalism and his feelings of alienation in white spaces.
moving to a white institution in the north repeated the trauma of moving to a white seminary in the south, which Thomas described in an interview with the crisis the magazine of the NAACP thus quote. So you leave that all black environment and you go into an environment where you are the only black and you are sitting where you live day in day out and attend classes and the only blacks you see are the two women who work in the kitchen and the rest are white people. You go through some changes going through those changes in the charged context of an integrating Northern College campus surrounded by the tenants and texts of blacks nationalism transformed him.
Episode: Part One: The Clarence Thomas Story
This book was mentioned in a segment discussing Clarence Thomas's college years, particularly his time at Holy Cross and his experiences with racial integration and the Black Power movement.
moving to a white institution in the north repeated the trauma of moving to a white seminary in the south, which Thomas described in an interview with the crisis the magazine of the NAACP thus quote.
