Norris Takes Leave to Write Book on Race

ATC's Michele Norris is going on leave for the summer to work on a book about race in America. The book will be published by Pantheon, and the tentative title is Say What?

Norris told The New York Observer the book will be about the “hidden conversation on race” that has occurred since the 2008 presidential campaign. She said, " People talk about race one way in public and they often — not always but often – talk about it in a different way and at a different tempo in the private sphere. And I just want to pull back the curtain a little bit.”

The idea for the book came out of a series of three discussions on race she and Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep conducted in York, PA.
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