Podcast Season 1
Ep 6: Walking Away From Race Politics & Embracing Diverse Cultural Identities | An Intimate Conversation with Sundiata Soon-Jahta & Maryella Marie
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Have you ever been asked to check a box in order to identify your complex cultural heritage?
What tools of oppression are being used when we are asked to deny pieces of our family tree or to simplify our identity to a politicized, racial construct?
In this fascinating interview, Maryella Marie chats with Sundiata Soon-Jahta about his recent ancestry DNA test results and deep dives into his decision to reject race as a social construct while also embracing his complex heritage.
Are you curious about your complex ancestry?
Have you recently received your ancestry DNA test results?
This intimate conversation is one for the history books! #LostStories #Identity #Ancestry #History #DNATestResults #RacePolitics #Blackness #Whiteness #AfricanAncestry #EuropeanAncestry #Heritage #NewNarratives #LostHistory
GD Founder: Sundiata Soon-Jahta
Producer: Maryella Marie
Writer, Producer, Co-host: Maryella Marie
Co-host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta
Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue
Featured Music:
“Sydewalk” by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy
“I’m Coming” by Ill Neal @illnealmusic
EPISODE CREDITS
SHOW NOTES
African Ancestry DNA Testing Kit
Guadalupe Arriegue’s Instagram and website
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