Living in two worlds: Exploring Multi-Racial Identity
Living in Two Worlds: Exploring Multi-Racial Identity
Dialogue and discussion with New York Time Bestselling author: James McBride, Author of "The Color of Water".
Featuring multi-racial panel of Berklee students and staff
Tuesday: March 25, 2008 from 2-4pm at David Friend Recital Hall at Berklee College of Music
921 Boylston St. Boston, MA
Co-sponsored by the Office For Cultural Diversity and the Office of the President.
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James McBride
Living in Two Worlds: Exploring Multiracial Identity
Award-winning jazz musician, McBride is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Color of Water, a memoir that has become a modern classic. It has sold almost two million copies worldwide, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list and is published in more than 16 languages. Currently, Spike Lee is directing the film adaptation of McBride’s debut novel, Miracle at St. Anna, paying tribute to African American soldiers who fought in WWII.
His newest novel, Song Yet Sung, is the highly charged story of an escaped female runaway slave in 1850, who desperately eludes a skilled slave catcher through the treacherous swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore.
James is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, People Magazine, and The Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. His April 2007 National Geographic story entitled “Hip Hop Planet” is considered a respected treatise on African American music and culture.
As a musician, James has written songs (music and lyrics) for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., and Gary Burton, among others. He served as a tenor saxophone sideman for jazz legend Little Jimmy Scott. He is the recipient of several awards for his work as a composer in musical theatre including the Stephen Sondheim Award and the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award. His “Riffin’ and Pontificatin’ “Tour, a nationwide tour of high schools and colleges promoting reading through jazz, was captured in a 2003 Comcast documentary. He has been featured on national radio and television programs in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
James is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. He studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York at age 22. He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University
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Tags: Diversity, identity, james mcbride, multi-racial identity