Ep. 42 "A Deeper Story" | Library Stories

Behind every great book lies a deeper story. This week, NYPL Board Member Gordon Davis tells the story of his parents, Allison Davis and Elizabeth Stubbs Davis, and how they came to research and write "Deep South," a seminal anthropological study of racism in the American south in the 1930's. His parents, along with two white anthropologists, effectively went under cover in order to do their field work, putting themselves in considerable peril for the better part of two years. What resulted is a text that has been read by everyone from Martin Luther King to Whitney Young, and has ripple effects across generations. He tells his story from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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