Podcasts

Podcasts

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…

Episode 22 | Filmmaker John Akomfrah and the ‘Precarity’ of Black Genius 

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by filmmaker John Akomfrah, A founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London…

Episode 21 | White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by scholar and author Alisha Gaines, Author of Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy (UNC Press, 2017),…

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…