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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Can race be transcended?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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How Did You Grow Up With the One-Drop Rule?

LZ Granderson: I grew up very much with the sense of race as a binary, a black white binary either or. My first book is a coming of age memoir about hip-hop culture and the street culture that's infused into the music. And so I wrote about kind of growing through this racial identity and then growing out of it in my first book, Losing My Cool. That blackness is more expansive than the way I had grown up thinking about it.

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