These conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.
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The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.
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A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.
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Podcasted process pieces from my course “Cinema of the Black Atlantic” at University of Maryland.
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Podcasted conversation on critical and literary theory, drawing on a range of theorists from Europe, the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. Our title is drawn from Audre Lorde's essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," where she writes that poetry fashions a language where words do not yet exist. How does theory make words and world new, attuned, and embedded within inventive and inventing lived-experience, tradition, and cultural production?
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Podcasted process pieces from my course Black Existentialism. The course introduces one of the most important and potent mid-century intellectual movements - the existentialist movement - through a series of black Atlantic thinkers. Our keystone will be Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, which is arguably the most important work of Black existentialism from this period. Across the semester we will see why existentialism, with its focus on the ambiguities and ambivalences of lived-experi ...
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20-30 minute reflections on particular Spike Lee films, from School Daze up through Black KkKlansman - précis for a book-length study of Lee's cinema, reflections on a course I've taught a number of times at Amherst College and University of Maryland. In these podcast pieces, I pay particular attention to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality as they emerge inside particular films and in the history-memory of African American life. How does Lee's cinema think? How does sound and image ...
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Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté on Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing
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This discussion is with Dr. Étienne Achille and Dr. Oana Panaïté. Dr. Achille is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villanova University. His publications include the monograph Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (2018, co-authored with L. Moudileno;) and the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory…
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Brenda E. Stevenson - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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J. Kameron Carter - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
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David Kalonji Walton - Department of History and African American Studies, Lincoln University
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Courtney Joseph - Department of History and African American Studies, Lake Forest College
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This discussion is with Dr. Julia Hauser, a cultural historian interested in the entanglements of Europe, the US and Asia, mainly India and the Middle East, during the nineteenth and twentieth century. She has worked on female mission in late Ottoman Beirut, the entangled history of vegetarianism between Europe, the US, and India, and the global hi…
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Imani D. Owens on Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
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This discussion is with Dr. Imani D. Owens, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She studies and teaches African American and Caribbean literature, music, and performance. Her research has been supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies at Princeton University, a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhanc…
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Sophia Jahadhmy and Sofia Meadows-Muriel - Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University
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Kyle T. Mays - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Rinaldo Walcott - Department of Africana and American Studies, University of Buffalo
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - Department of African American Studies, Princeton University
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David Ikard - Department of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University
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David Green - Department of English, Howard University
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Stephanie Jones and Makeba Lavan - Department of African Diaspora Studies, Grinnell College
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Jason Allen-Paisant on Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits
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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…
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Kathleen Spanos and Sinclair Emoghene on Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences
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Michael E. Sawyer - Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
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John Murillo III - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
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Deirdre Cooper Owens - Department of History and Africana Studies Institute, University of Connecticut
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Ruth Nicole Brown, Suban Nur Cooley, LeConté Dill, Yvonne Morris - Department of African and African American Studies, Michigan State University
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Austin Jackson - Non-Fiction Writing in the Department of English, Brown University
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Utz McKnight - Department of Gender and Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Naila Ansari, John Torrey, and Marcus Watson - Department of Africana Studies, Buffalo State University
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Charles McKinney - Department of Africana Studies, Rhodes College
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Today’s conversation is with Professor Charles McKinney, author of the 2010 book Greater Freedom: The Evolution of Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina and the co-editor of two fantastic volumes: An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee with Aram Goudsouzian from 2018 and the recently released From Rights to Liv…
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Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland
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Dalton, Christin, and Lisa on Henzell, Baugh, and The Wailers
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Dalton, Christin, and Lisa discuss the final bit of material from the seminar, including Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, Edward Baugh's "The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History," and The Wailers' album Burnin'.Di John E. Drabinski
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Edward Baugh, Perry Henzell, and The Wailers - Inventiveness, the Underclass, and the Sounds of the Everyday
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A discussion of Edward Baugh's essay "The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History," Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, and The Wailer's masterpiece album Burnin'.Di John E. Drabinski
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Kayna, Dalton, and Abby discuss the Creolist's response to Maryse Condé's critical remarks on the créolité movement, thinking through questions of nation, time, and identity.Di John E. Drabinski
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A discussion of Maryse Condé's essay "Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer" and the critical interview "Créolité Bites" with Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, with particular emphasis on the relationship between literature, identity, and diaspora.Di John E. Drabinski
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Charlie, Lisa, and Teagan discuss In Praise of Creoleness and its cultural politics of race, identity, and expression.Di John E. Drabinski
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Discussion of Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant's 1989 manifesto In Praise of Creoleness, with particular attention to questions of identity, cultural production, and the relation between writer and reader.Di John E. Drabinski
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Discussion of Kamau Brathwaite's poetics and poetic praxis with Teagan, Kayna, and Lisa.Di John E. Drabinski
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A discussion of the relation between orality and aurality in Kamau Brathwaite's poetics and poetic praxis.Di John E. Drabinski
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A discussion of Wilson Harris' work with Mary Catherine Contreras, Twanna Hodge, and Christin Washington.Di John E. Drabinski
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A discussion of two late essays by Wilson Harris on creoleness and the imagination, with particular emphasis on how they ask us to rethink and recalibrate our language of identity.Di John E. Drabinski
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