Left of Black S2:E18 | February 6, 2012

Thinking While Black with Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill 

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris Perry, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press). Perry discusses the “politics” of Black women and what she terms a “mis-recognition” of Black women as citizens.  Neal and Harris Perry contemplate the recent fascination with Black women’s “unmarriagability” and her soon to be launched weekend news show on MSNBC.

Later, Neal is joined via Skype© by Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of Education at the Teachers College of Columbia University.  Hill is co-author, with celebrated political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal,  of the new book  The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations of Black Life in America.  Neal and Hill discuss the importance of black independent publishing, of communicating to broader publics beyond the Academy.  Lastly, Hill talks about the importance young people engaging Abu-Jamal’s incarceration in order to form a long-lasting movement against injustice.  

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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