Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- Lavelle's recently published book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual .
- Lavelle's favorite Black academic novels, including The Mad Man, Erasure, Glyph, I'm Not Sidney Poitier, and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People.
- Lavelle's motivation for writing the book and his journey.
- Responses to the book related to the current political climate and the current moment in higher education.
- How Lavelle used his acknowlegements as a space to address the experience of writing while working at a teaching-intensive institution.
- Historical changes to the experiences of Black academics and experiences in historically Black colleges and universities vs. predominantly white institutions.
- The biggest challenges facing Black scholars today and the role of allies in improving working conditions.
- Hope for the future of higher ed in Black Lives Matter and student activism.
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Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.