Left of Black S5:E5: New Black Southern Studies

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by University of Memphis Sociologist Zandria F. Robinson, author of This Ain’t Chicago Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (UNC Press). Addressing the current state of Southern Studies, Professor Robinson highlights the efforts of fellow scholars “looking for that post-Civil Rights, Black Southern experience–how do we document that, how do we tell that story?” noting that “we can find it in hip-hop, we can find it in film, we can find it in visual art.”

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

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