Podcasts

Podcasts

Episode 10 | Oddisee (Amir Mohamed el Khalifa) Talks The State of  Hip-Hop and Trump’s America

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by acclaimed rapper and producer, Amir Mohamed el Khalifa  Also known as Oddisee . Oddisee visited Durham and…

Episode 9 | Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer   Author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United…

Episode 8 | Decolonizing Diasporas – a Conversation with Yomaira Figueroa

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Yomaira Figueroa. Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the department of English…

Episode 7 | A Conversation with Fred Moten

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and poet, Fred Moten Author of numerous books including In the Break: The Aesthetics of the…

Episode 6 | New Directions in Black Transnational andDiaspora Studies – a  Conversation with Randi Gill-Sadler

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram  is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Randi Gill-Sadler. Gill-Sadler is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She received her Ph.D….

Episode 5 | Black Disability or Blackness Disabled? A Conversation with Therí A. Pickens

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Therí Pickens Author of New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary…

Episode 4 | A Chance for Change – Historian Crystal Sanders on Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by historian, Crystal Sanders, Author of A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle (University…

Episode 3 | Making All Black Lives Matter – Barbara Ransby on Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by historian and political activist, Barbara Ransby, Author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the…

Episode 2 | “Butch Queens Up in Pumps” – Marlon Bailey on Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Marlon Bailey Author of Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit…

Episode 1 | Historian Martha S. Jones on A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Martha S. Jones, Author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in…

Episode 24: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by scholar and author Treva Blaine Lindsey Author of Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. (University of Illinois…

Episode 23 | Black Women and the Pursuit of Happiness

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Bianca Williams Author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (Duke University…