![]() ![]() She told me a story about how they couldn't try on shoes in the store. Where my mom lived in segregated Louisiana, she went to segregated schools. I grew up in a lot of culturally diverse spaces and definitely not majority black spaces. On the comparison between her own childhood and her mother's childhood Your purchase helps support NPR programming. I think that there's something really powerful and humanizing of not fore-grounding white racism as the No.1 problem of being black.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Mothers Author Brit Bennett So I wanted to sort just depict ordinary black life. But I also was interested in the experience of creating characters whose lives are inflected by race but whose lives are not necessarily dictated by racism. ![]() I think I was interested in depicting this community that was racially diverse, which Oceanside is as a military town. ![]() So I sort of wrote in the direction of that fear and explored the idea of these young people in this church community - because I had grown up in the church myself - and had a lot of questions about being young in the church. ![]() There's a way in which situation was something that I feared at that age - the idea of this unwanted pregnancy and the way that that could change your life or dictate your future, depending on what you chose to do. creating characters whose lives are inflected by race but whose lives are not necessarily dictated by racism. ![]()
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