Episode 5 | Black Disability or Blackness Disabled? A Conversation with Therí A. Pickens

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Therí Pickens

Author of New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States (Routledge 2014), which Michelle M. Wright of Northwestern University calls, “a rare and important ‘first’ in American Studies, Disability Studies, African American Studies, and Arab American Studies: a long-awaited yet desperately needed comparative analysis of two groups who are distinct, yet overlap with one another quite poignantly.“ Pickens also edited a special issue of African American Review on Blackness & Disability (Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2017).