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The Black Studies PodcastGrant Farred - Department of Africana Studies, Cornell UniversityThis is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, 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.Today’s conversation is with Grant Farred, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Cornell Univ...2025-02-191h 08
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism"It Is Not The Mountains Which Open Fire" - Efemia Chela on Amilcar Cabral's Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy VictoriesIn this episode we interview Efemia Chela. Chela is a Zambian-Ghanian writer, literary critic, and an editor. Efemia joins us in her role as the commissioning editor at Inkani Books, which is the publishing division of The Tricontinental Pan Africa NPC, a research institute that collaborates with and is aligned with the work of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In this conversation Efemia shares a bit about some of the current struggles in South Africa, and situates Inkani Books as a publisher within those struggles as well as within their broader African continental context as a...2022-12-031h 02
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceAn Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America by Grant FarredPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America Author: Grant Farred Narrator: Earl Sewell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: An Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror and of white supremacy both in...2022-11-0830 min
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceAn Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America by Grant FarredPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610808to listen full audiobooks.
Title: An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America
Author: Grant Farred
Narrator: Earl Sewell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Release date: November 8, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
An Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror and of white supremacy both in our...2022-11-088h 46
Conversations in Atlantic TheoryZeyad el Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Grant Farred on Africana Studies: Theoretical FuturesA conversation with Zeyad el Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Grant Farred about the forthcoming collection Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, forthcoming in spring 2022 with Temple University Press. The volume addresses the history and future of the field of Africana studies, with emphasis on theoretical innovations and possibilities in Africa and the black Atlantic.Zeyad el Nabolsy is a doctoral student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, where he works on African iterations of philosophy, culture, and Marxism in a continental and global intellectual context and has authored a piece on political economy and African philosophy for the volume...2022-01-191h 15
New Books in SportsGrant Farred, "The Burden of Over-Representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy" (Temple UP, 2018)Today we are joined by Grant Farred, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University. Farred is the author of The Burden of Over-Representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy(Temple University Press, 2018), which explores three sporting ‘events’: an uncharacteristic outburst from Jackie Robinson’s at a spring training game in New Orleans, Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela’s celebration after the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and the ethereal presence of Derrida in the stands of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. He concentrates on these three happenings in order to raise questions about (over)representation in sports, the event, reconcilia...2018-11-281h 00