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A Contrarian View of Blackness
Left of Black S3:E28 | On the Season Finale of ‘Left of Black’ Guest Host Alondra Nelson Talks with Mark Anthony Neal about His New Book ‘Looking for Leroy’
Guest host and Columbia University Professor Alondra Nelson sits down in the Left of Black studios with Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his new book Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (NYU Press).
Nelson is associate professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University and the author of the award winning Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and the forthcoming The Social Life of DNA: Race and Reconciliation after the Genome (Beacon Press). Neal is the author of several books including New Black Man (2005) and Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, and the host of Left of Black.
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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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Left of Black S3:E27 | Queer Sounds & Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by DePaul University Professor Francesca Royster, the author of the new book Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press).
With Black eccentricity as a frame, Neal and Royster discuss the careers and legacies of the late Eartha Kitt, Parliament-Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder’s Secret Life of Plants, Grace Jones and the late Michael Jackson.
Royster is also the author of Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon.
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E26 | Black Digital Sci-Fi & Black Girls in the ‘New’ South
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by Keith Josef Adkins, writer and director of the digital Sci-Fi series ‘The Abandon.’
Later Neal is joined by University of Georgia professor Bettina Love, author of the new book ‘Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South’ (Peter Lang Publishing)
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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 Centerat Duke University.
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Left of Black S3:E25 | The Enduring Legacy of Angela Davis
Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by film director Shola Lynch in a conversation about her new film Free Angela and All Politics Prisoners and the enduring legacy of Angela Davis as an intellectual and cultural icon.
Lynch’s credits include the award winning Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004). Free Angela and All Political Prisoners opened in selected cities on April 5, 2013, and was executive produced by Overbrook Entertainment and Roc Nation.
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America?
November 19, 2012
American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it. Scholar Yaba Blay offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project (1)ne Drop which “seeks to challenge narrow, yet popular perceptions of what Blackness is and what Blackness looks like.”
Blay, a Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University and contributing producer to CNN’s Black in America 5, which was inspired by the (1)ne Drop project, joins Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal on the November 19th episode of Left of Black to talk about the complexities of Black identity. Neal is also joined by University of WashingtonProfessor Habiba Ibrahim for part two of an interview about her new book Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (University of Minnesota Press).
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism
November 12, 2012
For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California provides a fresh take on the practice arguing that passing in the contemporary moment transcends racial performance.
Dawkins talks about her new book with Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, via Skype. Neal is also joined by University of Washington Professor Habiba Ibrahim for part one of a two-part interview about her new book Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (University of Minnesota Press) in which she links the rise of Multiracialism in the 1990s to the maintenance of traditional gender norms.
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E8 | Recalling the Legacy of Queer Gender-Bending Harlem Renaissance Performer Gladys Bentley
November 5, 2012
For many Gladys Bentley is a long forgotten footnote to the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age. Bentley’s willingness to challenge the racial, sexual and gender status quo of the 20th Century is recalled in the work of Durham-based artist Shirlette Ammons on her new recording Twilight for Gladys Bentley. Ammons and Duke University Professor Sharon Patricia Holland join Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in studio to talk about “Bentley Mode,” the tradition of “raunchy” Black Music (“f*ckable feminist”) and Holland’s new book The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press).
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E7 | Hip-Hop, Religion & The Black Church
October 29, 2012
Left of Black host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Monica R. Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College and author of Religion and Hip-Hop(Routledge, 2012); Ebony Utley, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach and author Rap and Religion: Understanding The Gangsta’s God (Praeger 2012); and Emmett G. Price III, Associate Professor of Music and African-American Studies at Northeastern University and editor The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide (Scarecrow 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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E6 | October 22, 2012
Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era
Left of Black host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studios by Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University. Neal and Bonilla-Silva, the author of the now classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, discuss the Obama Presidency, the importance of a social justice politics, and the insidiousness of “color-blind” racism.
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
From Lynch-Mobs to Dog-Whistles: Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era; Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva on the October 22nd ‘Left of Black’
In an era that some tried to define as “Post-Race,” many commentators have been quick to point out the “dog-whistle” racism that has become a feature of our national politics, particularly in relation to the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama. It is a state of politics that Duke University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva recognized nearly a decade ago in his ground breaking study (now in it’s third edition) Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Bonilla-Silva cautions us though, that those dog-whistles—from Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” outburst to President Obama’s depiction as the “welfare President”—are part of an “old racism,” that while important to address, often obscures the ways that the “new racism,” a color-blind racism is impacting the lives of people of color
With his signature humor, Professor Bonilla-Silva, currently the Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University, joins host and fellow Duke University colleague Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio in a wide ranging conversation about the Obama Presidency, the importance of the Black Left and the insidiousness of “color-blind” racism.
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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlackhttp://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlack
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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