Black Girl from the Burbs
Episodes
8 episodes
From the Director's Chair featuring Melissa Lowery
It's the Season One finale! Khristen sits down with filmmaker, Melissa Lowery, to discuss her 2014 feature documentary, "Black Girl in Suburbia." It discusses just about everything we've talked about here in Season One - what a perfect ending! ...
"You're so ghetto..." and Other Microaggressions featuring Jhenna Louis
This episode is all about microaggressions! Khristen invites one of her college roomies on the show to talk about her experiences in suburban Boston. This is the first time we see shared experiences across regions (midwest and New England/east ...
Rage Against the Machine featuring Crystal Terrell
Khristen and her hometown classmate catch up on their shared experiences of growing up in the suburbs. Crystal always used to ask "why?" as a kid, and this small but critical question allowed her to see systemic issues cloaked in upbeat songs a...
Belonging vs Fitting In featuring Ariel Seay-Howard
Belonging versus fitting in. Do you know the difference?Khristen and a longtime family friend check in about belonging in a world that does not always see or accept us as who we are. While there's no subject matter expert in this episod...
Curls and Coils featuring Siobhan Carter-David and Tiffany Humes
Khristen takes us right into a conversation about Black hair. She talks with a historian about the constant work Black women have to do to debunk Eurocentric beauty standards. This episode's everyday guest shares her many hair horror stories as...
School Daze featuring Dawn Warren Hildreth and Arielle Bassett
"School Daze" engages with a veteran educator sharing her story of teaching in a suburban school district, how she made sure to have Black women colleagues in her inner work circle, and her determination to mentor her Black students. We also he...
Code Switching featuring Nicole Holliday, Tracey Weldon-Stewart, and Grant Flennoy, Jr.
Episode 2 dives into a common practice among Black people: code switching. How Black people from the suburbs experience code switching, however, is a little non-traditional compared to Black people from mixed or all-Black neighborhoods. This to...
Beginning of the Burbs featuring Janeria Easley and Pamela Bradford
The first episode of the series, Beginning of the Burbs, discusses the history of the suburb phenomenon in the United States from a sociological perspective. What was this new geographical location that differed from the big cities and the coun...