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Episode: The Black and Queer on Campus Experience with Author Michael P, Jeffries
Description: Today we talk about the black queer experience on college campuses with author Michael P. Jeffries. His new book Black and Queer on Campus challenges stereotypes regarding black culture and LGBTQ+ people.
Michael chronicles how black LGBTQ+ students face particular challenges, including dealing with lack of understanding or outright rejection from their birth and home families while struggling to find mentors they can trust and spaces on campus where they can be themselves and feel safe. The book draws on in-depth interviews with 65 Black LGBTQ+ students—40 from nine different historically black colleges/universities and another 25 from seven predominately white institutions.
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