{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Black Existentialism","title":"Walcott on History, Race, and Identity","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/32f5af68\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1447,"description":"A discussion of Derek Walcott's 1974 essay \"The Muse of History,\" focusing on how his repudiation of \"paternity\" impacts the question of identity in the black Americas. What is a black American? What is that identity's relationship to European and African ancestry, and the overwhelming frame of empire's history? What other identity stories can be told?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lw6o0WdZmlj6gtn6vop2ADRfgH-rBiKo1HN-19V_DjA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM4Mzg2LzE2NzUy/ODQwODMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}