Left of Black S2:E17 | January 30, 2012

Memories of the Chitlin Circuit and Education in the Digital Age

w/ Professor Guthrie Ramsey and Professor Cathy Davidson

Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by University of Pennsylvania professor, author, and musician Guthrie Ramsey. Neal and Ramsey discuss the release of The Colored Waiting Room, a new recording from Ramsey’s band Dr. Guy’s MusiQology.  The two scholars discuss the idea of  “colored waiting rooms” as metaphors for the private aspects of Black culture and how critical such spaces were to the cultivation of  Black culture. 

Later, Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Cathy Davidson, professor of Interdisciplinary studies and English at Duke University.  Davidson is the author  of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn The Duke colleagues discuss the impact of digital technology in the classroom and whether infants are aware of race.

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.

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