Episode 20 | Fugitive Science, Black Freedom and Early African AmericanCulture

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by scholar and author Britt Rusert

Author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (NYU Press), which Alondra Nelson has called “Groundbreaking Interdisciplinary Scholarship.”  Rusert is Associate Professor of African American Studies in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, returned to Duke University, where she earned a Ph.D. in 2009, as part of the Symposium, Black Women, Black Studies and Knowledge Production. In her book Professor Rusert exposes the influential work of a group of Black writers, artists, and performers who confront and refute scientific racism.