Episode 11 | How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Changed Black Age with Dr. Habiba Ibrahim

How are African Americans socialized in this society that redefines age, and by extension childhood, for those of enslaved descent?

Black children are brutalized by a criminal justice system that does not see them as “children,” while fully-grown mature Black men were historically called “boy” by their Caucasian counterparts. Are the attempts at un-aging, and re-aging, Black bodies yet another means of dehumanization? This week, Left of Black creator and long-time host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Dr. Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington and author of Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life, published  by New York University Press.