Matthew Guterl is a historian of race and nation at Brown University, and also Khalil’s other white best friend. He joins the show to discuss his powerful new memoir, Skinfolk. It’s about his experience growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s, part of a large family with multiracial and adopted siblings. The three of them have a frank conversation about family dynamics and the limits of transracial adoption. 

You can order a copy of Skinfolk here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091714

<p dir="ltr">Matthew Guterl is a historian of race and nation at Brown University, and also Khalil’s other white best friend. He joins the show to discuss his powerful new memoir, Skinfolk. It’s about his experience growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s, part of a large family with multiracial and adopted siblings. The three of them have a frank conversation about family dynamics and the limits of transracial adoption. </p>
<p dir="ltr">You can order a copy of Skinfolk here: <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091714" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091714&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1680100290654000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2DpmZJPgIsk5A1H5gMo_8o">https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091714</a></p>

Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.

Some of My Best Friends Are

Can Multiracial Adoption End Racism?

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