Dr. Brandi Thompson Summers is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS) at the University of California, Berkeley. The professor discusses her 2019 book Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, which explores how aesthetics and race converge to locate blackness in Washington, DC.
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Today’s guest is the Emmy-Award winning and NAACP Image Award winning host Jeannie Mai. She can be seen each weekday on the nationally syndicated talk show “The Real,” and on ABC’s hit summer series “Holey Moley.” She was a contestant on a season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. She also hosts an online series on Facebook and YouTube called “Hello Hunnay” and a podcast called “Listen Hunnay”. She joins host Dr. Joshua K. Wright to discuss the challenges Asian-Americans experience in Hollywood.