Conversation with P. Djèlí Clark

Matthew Teutsch
4 min readSep 24, 2021

Over the last couple of posts, I have written about the monstrosity of racism in P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout and in David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root. Since I am teaching this texts this semester, I reached out to Clark to see if he might be available to Zoom in with my class. Unfortunately, he would not be able to Zoom in with my class; however, just as Malaka Gharib was gracious enough to speak with me…

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Matthew Teutsch

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