In this episode, Craig and Olivia sit down with Eve L. Ewing—author, scholar, poet, comic book writer, and professor—to talk about her newest book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.
Eve shares the inspirations behind the book, the emotional toll of writing it, and the active role imagination plays in justice and systemic transformation.
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I’m committed to always trying to find what I think is the best pathway to tell [a] story and not let my own attachment to a way of writing or a genre or a professional identity set an artificial limit on what the story needs.
—Eve L. Ewing on the Libro.fm Podcast
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About our guest
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, and Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks and has written several projects for Marvel Comics. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues.
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Original Sins
By Eve L. Ewing • Narrated by Robin Miles & Eve L. Ewing
1919
By Eve L. Ewing • Narrated by Eve L. Ewing
Maya and the Robot
By Eve L. Ewing • Narrated by Bahni Turpin
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
By Eve L. Ewing • Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts
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