Left of Black S5:E16:  On Prison Art, Public Culture and Racial Icons

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in-studio by Professor Nicole Fleetwood , who talks about her forthcoming project Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture.  Fleetwood is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press 2011)  and On Racial Icons , which will be published by Rutgers University Press later this year.

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 and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).

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