Remembering “The Colored Waiting Room” and the “Myth” of a Culture of Distraction on the January 30^th ‘Left of Black’

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.

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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.

Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

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