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Episode 16 | Chaédria LaBouvier on Basquiat’s “Defacement”
Writer and curator Chaédria LaBouvier has cemented her place in the art world as the first African-American person to curate an exhibition at the famed Guggenheim Museum. A scholar of the celebrated artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, LaBouvier sat down with co-host Sasha Panaram, Ph.D. to share her process for organizing the stunning show, “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The […]
Episode 15 | Richard Brent Turner on Black New Orleans
New Orleans persists as the premiere hub of Black Creole culture in the U.S., preserving a direct connection to traditions ranging from the first & second lines in jazz funerals to the ongoing practice and performance of Black Indian tribal customs. Richard Brent Turner, the author of Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New […]
Episode 14 | Kinohi Nishikawa and Black Pulp Fiction of the 1970’s
The rise of Black pulp fiction was largely attributed to the success of Blaxpoitation films, like Dolemite, which offered a more raw depiction of African American daily life in the 1970’s Princeton Professor of English Kinohi Nishikawa sat down with Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal to discuss these trends and his newest publication, […]
Episode 13 | Candis Watts Smith on Black Lives Matter
What is the ongoing relevance of the Black Lives Matter movement particularly as the nation heads back to the polls for the upcoming 2020 election? In this episode of Left of Black, host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal discusses the movement with Candis Watts Smith, co-author of Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black […]
Episode 12 | Ainehi Edoro an Brittle Paper
Left of Black co-host host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by Dr. Ainehi Edoro, an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the founder and editor of Brittle Paper, an online platform dedicated to African literature and culture.
Episode 11 | Courtney R. Baker on Images of African American Suffering and Death
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Courtney R. Baker, an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death (University of Illinois Press, 2015), which “questions the […]
Episode 10 | Monika Gosin on The Politics of Racial in Multicultural Miami
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Monika Gosin, an associate professor of sociliogy at William & Mary. She is the author of The Politics of Racial Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitmacy in Multicultural Miami (Cornell University Press, 2019), which “deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami […]
Episode 9 | LaKisha Simmons and Black Girls Studies
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. LaKisha Simmons , an associate professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (University of North Carolina Press 2015), which […]
Episode 8 | Oulimata Guéye and Afro-Cyber Feminism
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by, Critic and curator Oulimata Guéye to discuss her research focused on the impact of digital technology on urban popular culture in Africa, and on the imaginary worlds it produces.
Episode 7 | Historian Peter Cole on Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Peter Cole an assistant professor in the Department of History at Western Illinois University. His latest book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press 2018), won the Philip Taft Labor History Book […]
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