Listening in a Racial Crisis
America is good at broadcasting but it suffers from low-level listening literacy.
Nicole Brittingham Furlonge
I am director and professor at the Klingenstein Center, Teachers College Columbia University. I am the author of Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature (University of Iowa Press, 2018), which features some of my writing on Baldwin's short fiction. My work has appeared in The Huffington Post, and in refereed scholarly journals, including Callaloo and Interference.