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Shane McCrae is an award-winning African-American poet and writer whose work often addresses the black experience in the US. Poetry became a way of making sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing. As a child, Shane was raised by his white maternal grandparents in a deeply racist household. Now both dead, they taught him the Nazi salute, told him that he 鈥渢anned very easily鈥� and that he was living with them because his black father didn鈥檛 want him. But when Shane was a teenager, he would learn the truth about the racial prejudice and deception that divided him from his dad Stanley.

This episode was first broadcast in October 2020. Since then Shane has written a memoir called Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping.

Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Maryam Maruf

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(Photo: Shane McCrae with his grandmother. Credit: Courtesy of Shane McCrae)