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Paul Beatty, Author

Stephen Sackur talks to author Paul Beatty, whose Booker Prize-winning novel Sellout deploys biting satire to unpick the black American experience.

Stephen Sackur talks to author Paul Beatty, whose Booker Prize-winning novel Sellout deploys biting satire to unpick the black American experience. After eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black Americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. How best to respond?

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 17 Jan 201704:30GMT
BBC News Channel BBC News UK & BBC News UK HD only

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PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestPaul Beatty

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