Left of Black S5:E8:  On Sex, Race, Money & Other Impolite Conversations

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by award-winning journalist Cora Daniels (@IamCoraDaniels) and University of Pennsylvania Cultural Anthropologist John L. Jackson, Jr. (@JohnLJacksonJr)  authors of Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion (Atria Books).

“We wanted to build a bridge between the real world and academia” says Daniels, of the decision to co-write a book with her long time friend, Jackson.  Daniels is the author Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless (2007) and Black Power, Inc.: The New Voice of Success (2004). Jackson, who is Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of several books including the classic Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (2001) and the recent Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (2013)

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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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