The EssayThinking BlackEpisodes Episode guide

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1. Michael Manley

   5/5Writer Colin Grant asks who is black and who isn’t – and who gets to decide?
2. Sandra Laing

   4/5Writer Colin Grant explores the history and consequences of racial passing.
3. Bert Williams

   3/5Writer Colin Grant explores the history and evolution of minstrelsy.
4. John Howard Griffin

   2/5Colin Grant examines how black people often experience invisibility in wider society.
5. Peter Fryer

   1/5Colin Grant explores whether it’s appropriate for a white writer to write black history.