Filmmaker Byron Hurt Talks About His New Film Soul Food Junkies on the Spring Premiere of ‘Left of Black’ Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets led to a shortened lifespan. Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, Byron Hurt, whose last film was the award-winning […]
Left of Black S3:E13 | Cable News, ‘Scary’ Black People & Black Nerds Journalist Eric Deggans, Television & Media Critic for The Tampa Bay Times, is one of a handful of Black journalists working in such positions at major newspapers in the United States. From his perch, Deggans has a unique vantage to gauge the […]
Left of Black S3:E12 | The Politics of Pleasure and the Power of Alternative Politics December 3, 2012 For more than twenty-years Joan Morgan, journalist, feminist thinker, and author of the classic When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life As a Hip-Hop Feminist, has been at the forefront of questions regarding the intersections of […]
Left of Black S3:E11 | Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia November 26, 2012 On Thursday, November 8, 2012, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) sponsored Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia: A Symposium on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. The event featured Jack Halberstam, Professor […]
Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America? November 19, 2012 American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it. Scholar Yaba Blay offers […]
Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism November 12, 2012 For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia […]
The Legacy of Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism on the November 12thLeft of Black For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), […]
Left of Black S3:E8 | Recalling the Legacy of Queer Gender-Bending Harlem Renaissance Performer Gladys Bentley November 5, 2012 For many Gladys Bentley is a long forgotten footnote to the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age. Bentley’s willingness to challenge the racial, sexual and gender status quo of the 20th Century is recalled in the work […]
Left of Black S3:E7 | Hip-Hop, Religion & The Black Church October 29, 2012 Left of Black host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Monica R. Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College and author of Religion and Hip-Hop(Routledge, 2012); Ebony Utley, Associate Professor of […]
Left of Black S3:E6 | October 22, 2012 Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era Left of Black host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studios by Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University. Neal and Bonilla-Silva, the author of the […]