In Conversation: Michaela Angela Davis and Melissa Harris-Perry

Re Melissa Harris Perry's book "Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America."

"I get how you can go from Zora Neale Hurston to statistics."

Misrecognition

Politics of respectability: "In Jim Crow, everyone's pants were up and they still had to sit in the back of the bus."

Duboisian double consciousness: "Michelle (Obama) felt alienated at Princeton and today is Wednesday."



Another book: Dog Whistle Politics  Ian Haney Lopez