Episode 3 | Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

On this episode of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by GerShun Avilez in a discussion of his new book

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism (University of Illinois Press), which examines how Black Nationalist rhetoric impacted African American artistic experimentation in the late 20th and 21st centuries in drama, novels, poetry, film, and visual art. According to reviewer Sasha Panaram, “Radical Aesthetics is more than timely, it is essential – required reading.” Avilez is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.