Episode 7 | The Black Arts Movement + #BLM + 21st Century Black Aesthetics.

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal  is joined on location in Durham, NC by Margo Natalie Crawford,  Associate  Professor of English at Cornell University. 

Crawford discusses the role of aesthetics in the Black Arts Movement and#BlackLivesMatter, and the ways that BLM actively engages the symbolism and gestures of the Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s. She is the author of Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus and the forthcoming Black Post-Blackness: the Black Arts Movement and 21st Century Black Aesthetics.