Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Associate Research Professor in the Department of English at Duke University. Jaji is the author of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal has his ancestral DNA analyzed during a special presentation of Left of Black, recorded with a live audience at the John Hope Franklin Center. The event featured a panel with Professor Rick Kittles (Co-founder of African Ancestry and the Director of the Center for Population Genetics at the University […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined on location by Historian and Digital Humanist Jessica Marie Johnson, who discusses Hurricane Katrina, the spectacle of State-sanctioned Anti-Black Violence, and #BlackCodeStudies. Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University and the Curator of African Diaspora, Ph.D. and Diaspora Hypertext. […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined on location in Durham, NC by Candice M. Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jenkins is the author of Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Assistant Professor of Art, Arts History and Visual Studies + African & African American Studies at Duke University. Cobb discusses her new book Picture Freedom Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (New York University Press) […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined on location at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania by Natanya Duncan, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Lehigh University. Neal and Duncan discuss the under-studied role of Black women in the organizing efforts of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Organization (UNIA), […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined on location in Durham, NC by Scholar Jeffrey Q. McCune , author of Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing (University of Chicago Press). Neal and McCune discuss the intersectionality of #BlackLivesMatter, living and teaching in St. Louis a year after […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Religion Scholar Monica R. Miller, author of Religion and Hip Hop (Routledge, 2012), Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion: Social and Rhetorical Techniques Examined (Equinox), and co-editor of The Hip Hop and Religion Reader (Routledge) and co-editor Religion in Hip […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Historian Blair L.M. Kelley author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson and host of the podcast Historical Blackness. Professor Kelley is Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies […]
On this episode of Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Camille A. Brown —Award Winning Dancer, choreographer and founder of Camille A. Brown and Dancers. Brown’s latest work Black Girl: Linguistic Play, “explores the broad spectrum of black female identity” through dance and storytelling. The […]