Sibling Loss, A Surviving Brother & Historian's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race: Nico / Peter

The Broken Pack™: Stories of Adult Sibling Loss

Sibling Loss, A Historian, and a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race
On the first episode of our second season, Dr. Dean and Dr. Nico Slate, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University discusses his new book, “Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race," which explores his relationship with his brother Peter, and how he is doing now surviving sibling loss.
In the conversation, Drs. Slate and Dean discuss topics that impacted Dr. Slate's identity, development, and grieving including race, family, socioeconomic differences, caregiving for his mother, and so much more.
Having lost Peter nearly 20 years prior to this interview, surviving sibling Dr. Slate describes the process of losing his brother as “a long, long journey” of being a that he is still on and will always be on. He also shares how his personal experiences, including his own whiteness and his brother’s blackness, their relationship, and his sibling loss, have intertwined to influence his worldview and inform his work as a history professor.

Dr. Slate's book, "Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race" was published by Temple University Press and released in 2023. It is now available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Temple University, and hopefully your local bookstore.
https://tupress.temple.edu/books/brothers
More information on our guest can be found at https://nicoslate.com/my-history/

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1. Sibling Loss, A Surviving Brother & Historian's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race: Nico / Peter (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:01:07)

3. Who was Nico's brother? (00:02:30)

4. What’s in a Name? (00:06:14)

5. Missing His Brother in Middle Age (00:12:32)

6. Peter as Nico’s Coach (00:13:47)

7. Writing their Story (00:14:14)

8. Continuing bonds with Peter (00:16:00)

9. Grieving the same person differently (00:21:37)

10. Bringing the story of his brother into the world (00:25:00)

11. Writing as opening up to grief (00:29:54)

12. Peter’s death (00:35:49)

13. Normalizing talking about Sibling Loss (00:36:56)

14. Current Day Support (00:44:26)

15. Memories of Peter (00:49:48)