Candice M. Jenkins, Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the author of the recently released and critically-acclaimed Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), joined Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal to consider the precocious existence of Black bodies in our society, […]
Celebrated novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips conversed about the intersection of creative writing and humanistic inquiry He discussed his work as professor of English at Yale University with former Duke Ph.D. candidate Sasha Panaram. Sasha graduated from Duke in the spring of 2020.
The Pinhook, for a stirring discussion about the state of jazz, his own musical journey, and the legacy of his father great jazz saxophonist Walter Dewey Redman. Jazz legend Joshua Redman joined Duke Professor and Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal at one of Durham’s iconic pubs. Duke Performances brought Redman to Durham to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]