Books - Fledgling: a novel - Octavia E. Butler. OctaviaButlerReview.pdf. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (9780307346605): Max Brooks. WorldWarZandtheEndofReligion.pdf. The Tavis Smiley Show. The truth about stories: a native narrative - Thomas King. Dracula - Bram Stoker. Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples - Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in ... - Dorothy Roberts. Law professor-author Dorothy Roberts.
Tavis: Dorothy Roberts is a professor of law at Northwestern and the chair of the board of directors at the Black Women’s Health Imperative.
Her terrific new text is called “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the 21st Century.” Professor Roberts, good to have you on the program. Professor Dorothy Roberts: Thank you, thanks for having me. Tavis: What is the “fatal invention?” Roberts: Well, fatal invention refers to race in the United States. That’s why I call it an invention, and it’s fatal because it’s caused devastating inequalities that continue to this day.
Tavis: I’m not naïve in asking this question, but if post the Human Genome Project we know that we really aren’t that different, like what was that, .1 percent or 1 percent makes us different? Roberts: (Laughs) Right, right, yes, yes. Tavis: What was the number? Roberts: Well, it was .1 percent. Tavis: Point one, that’s what I thought, .1. Tavis: Tiny, miniscule amount that makes us different. Zone One - Colson Whitehead. Colson Whitehead Film Festival. Six Questions for Colson Whitehead—By Jeremy Keehn. The July 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine features an excerpt from Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, which is being released by Random House on October 18.
Harper’s put six questions to Whitehead about the book: [This interview was originally posted on July 1, 2011.] 1. The premise of Zone One is that a plague has struck the world, forming legions of “skels” — zombies, essentially, though you never use the word. This would seem to be a substantial departure from the introspective and personal terrain you covered in your previous novel, Sag Harbor, which focused on a black teenager living in the Hamptons during the 1980s.
The Quotable Zone One: “The palisades, Brooklyn, the Statue of Liberty scrolled before him in their stillness. I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before. 2. My first reader for this book was my friend Richard Nash, editor and publisher and general man-about-town. The Epigraphs: 3. 4. Selected Tweetings of @colsonwhitehead: 5. 6. Whitehead's 'Zone': Not Your Average Zombie Apocalypse. Hide caption Colson Whitehead is also the author of The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and Sag Harbor.
Erin Patrice O'Brien/Doubleday If you ask Colson Whitehead to describe the man at the center of his new novel, Zone One, he'll tell you: "It's about a guy just trying to make it to the next day without being killed — so it's about New Yorkers. " But character Mark Spitz isn't just any New Yorker. He's one of the only human survivors of a mysterious plague that has swept the world, turning billions of people into zombies. Whitehead first spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about Zone One in an extended conversation on Twitter. Interview Highlights On why Whitehead decided to destroy New York: "New York is always destroyed ... "I'm walking around with my idea of what New York was 30 years ago, 20 years ago. On wiping out the entire population: "Well, I wanted to cut back on the Whole Foods lines and make it easier to get a cab for my main characters.