Alien Bodies: Race, Place, Sex in the African Dias: Alien Bodies: Race, Place, & Sex in the African Diaspora alienbodies: Alien Bodies: Race, Space, and Sex in the African Diaspora | a Conference Presented by the African-American Studies Collective Keynote Speakers: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois at Chicago Emory University, Atlanta, […]
What If Du Bois had Twitter? Trailer for Black Thought 2.0 Conference Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black Studies April 6-7, 2012 Duke University The John Hope Franklin Center Black Thought 2.0 will focus on the roles of digital technology and social media in furthering the mission of Black Studies. The […]
Left of Black S2:E25 | March 26, 2012 The Death of Trayvon Martin and the “Fictions” of Black Leadership Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by R.L’Heureux Lewis, Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the City University of New York and Mary Morten, consultant for the Morten Group […]
Left of Black S2:E24 | March 19, 2012 Black Masculinity in the Documentary Frame Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by filmmaker Ron Chepesiuk, who discusses his new film The Frank Matthews Story: The Rise and Disappearance of America’s Biggest Kingpin. The film will be screened March 23, 2012 […]
Left of Black S2:E23 | March 12, 2012 Politics and the Prophetic Vision of the Black Church Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Professor Obery M. Hendricks, author of The Universe Bends Towards Justice (Orbis Books) and visiting scholar at The Institute of Research and African American Studies […]
Religion, Politics and the Black Church on the March 12th Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Professor Obery M. Hendricks, author of The Universe Bends Towards Justice (Orbis Books) and visiting scholar at The Institute of Research and African American Studies in the department of […]
Left of Black S2:E22 | March 5, 2012 Black Women’s Hair Matters and Black Queer Erotics in Cuba Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by actress and playwright Chaunesti Webb, creator and director of the new play I Love My Hair When It’s Good: & Then Again When It Looks […]
Left of Black S2:E21 | February 27, 2012 The Race-ing and Un-Race-ing of Tiger Woods and Contemporary Black Poetry Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Professor Orin Starn and via Skype© by Professor Thabiti Lewis. Authors of The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and […]
The Passion of Tiger Woods and Contemporary Black Poetry February 27th Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Professor Orin Starn and via Skype© by Professor Thabiti Lewis. Authors of The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal (Duke University Press) […]
Left of Black S2:E20 | February 20, 2012 Redefining Black Power and Re-Thinking Black Male Achievement with Joanne Griffith and Shaun Harper Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by journalist Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America (City Lights). […]