Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, featured on BBC Radio 4. A 2025 Rockower Award recipient for excellence in personal essay, she blends personal narrative with cultural analysis to probe the subjects many prefer to avoid: she has recently completed a manuscript of linked essays, Exit, Stage Left, that explores how the living wrestle with dying. A retired literature professor from King’s College London, her work has appeared in Psyche and Lilith, among others. Raised in Berkeley, she worked in Brazil, New York, and London before settling in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and near (but not too near) her adult children.
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Thinking Allowed, White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity
Racial ambiguity in America: Lisa Kingstone, Senior Teaching Fellow in Race and Identity at Kings College, London, asks what happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade. She’s joined by the writer, Bidisha. Also, what is meant by white privilege? Kalwant Bhopal, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, discusses her new study.