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, […]
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, […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by historian and political activist, Barbara Ransby, Author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2018), which Professor Angela Davis says, “offers us an analysis of the Movement for Black Lives, and its historical […]
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 […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Martha S. Jones, Author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (University of Cambridge, 2018), which Eric Foner describes as transforming our “understanding of the evolution of citizenship in nineteenth-century America.” Jones is the […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by scholar and author Vanessa K. Valdes. Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the The City College of NewYork. Professor Valdes is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (SUNY Press), as well […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Musician and Ethnomusicologist Alsarah, lead singer and co-founder of Alsarah and the Nubatones, an East African retro pop music group that was in residence at Duke University.
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Margo Natalie Crawford Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Crawford is the author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and 21st Century Black Aesthetics (University of Illinois Press, 2017) and Dilution Anxiety and the Black […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr The Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Davidson College. Professor Ewoodizie is the author of Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’s Early Years (University of North Carolina Press).
In Winston-Salem, NC at Wake Forest University Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Melissa Harris-Perry, the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University and scholar and author Brittney Cooper Author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Professor Harris-Perry is the author of the award-winning Barbershops, Bibles, and […]