Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Connor Towne O’Neill, the author of Down Along with That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy, to discuss our vital need to confront our past in order to transcend it and move toward a more just society.
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Connor Towne O’Neill is a producer on the NPR podcast White Lies, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting. His writing has appeared in New York Magazine, Vulture, Slate, Village Voice, and RBMA. A graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, O’Neill teaches at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project.
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