Calvin Baker: Black Like Who?

Barack Obama (Credit: Calvin Baker's Article)March 17, 2017 – Segment 2

I had a conversation with Calvin Baker about his article in the March 2017 issue of Harper’s Magazine, “Black Like Who? How Obama negotiated America’s racial tightrope.”

Baker teaches in the English Department at Yale University and the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University. He is the author of four novels, most recently Grace.

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