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Martha S. Jones explores racial identity by looking at her own family history
Martha S. Jones explores racial identity by looking at her own family history

Martha S. Jones explores racial identity by looking at her own family history

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Historian Martha S. Jones was looking through a book one day when she found a section mentioning her grandfather. It referred to her grandfather as white. But in reality, her grandfather’s father was a free man of color, and his mother was born enslaved. This wasn’t the first time her family’s racial identity was questioned, so she started writing down her version of her family’s history. It's that history, and her family's relationship to racial identity, that she explores in her new book The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. GUEST: Martha S. Jones: The Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History and Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her latest book is The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martha S. Jones explores racial identity by looking at her own family history

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