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Episode 11 | Michael Ralph on the Forensics of Capital
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Michael Ralph, Author of Forensics of Capital (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which Mamadou Diouf describes as a book that, “draws from various sources and resources to identify critical moments, events, and key social actors; investigates issues of risk, liability, citizenship, […]
Episode 10 | Oddisee (Amir Mohamed el Khalifa) Talks The State of Hip-Hop and Trump’s America
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by acclaimed rapper and producer, Amir Mohamed el Khalifa Also known as Oddisee . Oddisee visited Durham and Duke University for a weeklong residency in October 2018 as part of Duke Performances’ Hip-Hop Initiative. His albums include The Iceberg (2017), The Good Fight […]
Episode 9 | Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer Author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (New York University Press, 2016), which Marc Lamont Hill describes as, “a desperately needed intervention within Anthropology, Africana Studies, and Islamic Studies” that “brilliantly […]
Episode 8 | Decolonizing Diasporas – a Conversation with Yomaira Figueroa
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Yomaira Figueroa. Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the department of English and African American & African Studies program at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of […]
Episode 7 | A Conversation with Fred Moten
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and poet, Fred Moten Author of numerous books including In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), The Little Edges (Wesleyan University Press, 2015), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010), and The Feel Trio […]
Episode 6 | New Directions in Black Transnational andDiaspora Studies – a Conversation with Randi Gill-Sadler
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Randi Gill-Sadler. Gill-Sadler is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on representations of U.S. imperialism and black women in twentieth century United States and Caribbean […]
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, […]
Episode 4 | A Chance for Change – Historian Crystal Sanders on Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by historian, Crystal Sanders, Author of A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), which Susan Youngblood Ashmore says, “tells an important part of the history of the struggle for racial equality in Mississippi, […]
Episode 2 | “Butch Queens Up in Pumps” – Marlon Bailey on Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Marlon Bailey Author of Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (University of Michigan Press, 2013), which Dwight McBride describes as, “At once revelatory and heartbreaking, Bailey’s ethnographic details leap off the page, putting the reader […]
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