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Growing Up P.O.C.

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Growing Up P.O.C.

By: Soledad O'Brien
Narrated by: Soledad O'Brien
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 This 5 episode series will premiere on October 7th. To grow up P.O.C. in America is to be other, to live on the margins of mainstream experience. So how do people of color emerge from their childhoods and formative years? How is their racial identity formed? How do they find their place in the world? There is no singular answer, of course. There’s a multitude of perspectives drawn from lived experience, from triumph and travail, the extraordinary and the mundane. In Growing Up P.O.C., veteran journalist Soledad O’Brien speaks with five luminaries (Sunny Hostin, Marcus Samuelsson, Alicia Garza, Tommy Orange and Chad Sanders) about how they navigated their upbringings and how they survive and thrive today. No matter who you are, you will find flashes of familiar and unknown. These conversations are revelatory, funny, engaging, and illuminating. And they’re necessary. By one estimate, America will be minority white in 2045. In other words, there will be more people of color than white people in the US. As we all move toward a more diverse landscape, hopefully these insights and perspectives will help erode feelings of “them” and “they” and bring us ever closer to “we.”©2021 Soledad O'Brien (P)2021 Soledad O'Brien Americas Black & African American Cultural & Regional Social Sciences United States
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  • Trailer

    Trailer
    Sep 29 2021
    This 5 episode series will premiere on October 7th. To grow up P.O.C. in America is to be other, to live on the margins of mainstream experience. So how do people of color emerge from their childhoods and formative years? How is their racial identity formed? How do they find their place in the world? There is no singular answer, of course. There’s a multitude of perspectives drawn from lived experience, from triumph and travail, the extraordinary and the mundane. In Growing Up P.O.C., veteran journalist Soledad O’Brien speaks with five luminaries (Sunny Hostin, Marcus Samuelsson, Alicia Garza, Tommy Orange and Chad Sanders) about how they navigated their upbringings and how they survive and thrive today. No matter who you are, you will find flashes of familiar and unknown. These conversations are revelatory, funny, engaging, and illuminating. And they’re necessary. By one estimate, America will be minority white in 2045. In other words, there will be more people of color than white people in the US. As we all move toward a more diverse landscape, hopefully these insights and perspectives will help erode feelings of “them” and “they” and bring us ever closer to “we.”
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  • Episode 1

    Episode 1
    Oct 7 2021
    Soledad O’Brien interviews “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin.
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    41 mins
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  • Episode 2

    Episode 2
    Oct 7 2021
    Soledad O’Brien interviews award-winning novelist Tommy Orange.
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    37 mins
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This was a particularly powerful and poignant conversation. I love the intersection, and how you were about to make space for what is distinct about Native People’s experience.

However, you are still straight jacked by the dominant ideologically paradigm, ie. Whiteness—imo. What I want to hear is the uniqueness of the multi-cultural lens—perspective. Why accept the construct ‘race’? Challenge it. Give me ideals. And some tension—please.

Also, Soledad, hearing you issue expletives is now my guilty pleasure. And I like how you name feels so speak. It’s like a morsel. Filling. Wholesome. Generous.

Consider: ‘I am that I am’

Also, re demographics: the Latin communities will begin to frame their politics (aside/beyond whiteness), and you are uniquely positioned to approach this movement.

Your voice: Vanilla and nutmeg. Maple syrup and pancakes.

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