Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels and the novel White Nights, Black Paradise. She is a contributing editor for The Feminist Wire and a Visiting Scholar at USC’s Center for Feminist Research. She is also the founder of the Women’s Leadership Project, a feminist humanist high school mentoring program based in South L.A.
Ms. Hutchinson was on our show recently where she talked about her latest book White Nights, Black Paradise (a novel on Peoples Temple & the Jonestown Massacre).
During our conversation, she talked about:
– Some of her background growing up in Los Angeles and how is Los Angeles different today
– where did her passion for writing come from and her parents support of her writing when she was growing up
– Some background on her previous books
– The background and the story behind White Nights, Black Paradise
– What she would like the reader to get from reading White Nights, Black Paradise
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White Nights, Black Paradise a riveting story of complicity and resistance; loyalty and betrayal; black struggle and black sacrifice. It locates Peoples Temple and Jonestown in the shadow of the civil rights movement, Black Power, Second Wave feminism and the Great Migration. Recapturing black women’s voices, White Nights, Black Paradise explores their elusive quest for home and utopia. In so doing, the novel provides a complex window onto the epic flameout of a social movement that was not only an indictment of religious faith but of American injustice.
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