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Paul Beatty, Author

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News Channel HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

Stephen Sackur talks to author Paul Beatty, whose Booker Prize-winning novel Sellout deploys biting satire to unpick the black American experience. After eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black Americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. How best to respond? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Beatty

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