Camille Acker: Training School For Negro Girls

42 Minutes 328: Camille Acker - Training School For Negro Girls - 03.04.2019 In anticipation of Storyfort 2019, the program connects with writer, Camille Acker to discuss her 2018 work, Training School For Negro Girls. In this, her debut short story collection, Camille unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. She appears at Treefort Friday, March 22nd at Woodland Empire from 4 to 6 pm and on Sunday, March 24 at The Owyhee first floor cafe space from 3 to 4pm. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Mambo Sauce, D.C., Lower School, Upper School, Black Girls/Black Women, Gentrification, Race, Class, Identity, Ideology, Time Machine, Janet Jackson, Journal, Short Story, Novel, Edward P Jones, Power, Gender, Colorism, Truth To Power. https://www.camilleacker.com