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How did we get sensitized to the Hazel Scott issue?
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So, how did we get sensitized to this issue? We got sensitized... sensitized to it from being little Jewish kids who knew, through our families, through experience, through hearsay, that there was this bigotry against us, that existed. And so we were sensitized to the bigotry against Hazel Scott and blacks altogether. Now that wasn't being a Jew in terms of going to synagogue and that... what I'm getting at is the experience of Jews in the world and in America had sensitized our little class to this issue.
The fame of the American writer Philip Roth (1933-2018) rested on the frank explorations of Jewish-American life he portrayed in his novels. There is a strong autobiographical element in much of what he wrote, alongside social commentary and political satire. Despite often polarising critics with his frequently explicit accounts of his male protagonists' sexual doings, Roth received a great many prestigious literary awards which include a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997, and the 4th Man Booker International Prize in 2011.
Title: How did we get sensitized to the Hazel Scott issue?
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
Tags: Hazel Scott
Duration: 51 seconds
Date story recorded: March 2011
Date story went live: 18 March 2013
