Left of Black S3:E12 | The Politics of Pleasure and the Power of Alternative Politics

December 3, 2012

For more than twenty-years Joan Morgan, journalist, feminist thinker, and author of the classic When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life As a Hip-Hop Feminist, has been at the forefront of questions regarding the intersections of gender, sexuality and Transnational Blackness.  Morgan joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, via Skype, to talk about her new venture Emily Jayne Butters and Fragrances and her current scholarly work, theorizing the “pleasure principle” in the lives of Black Women.  Emily Jayne’s newest fragrance “Wench” is, perhaps, where Morgan’s two worlds, collide.

Later Neal is joined, also via Skype, by San Francisco State University Sociologist Andreana Clay, who talks about her new book The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics (New York University Press, 2012).

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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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