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Journal Of French And Francophone Philosophy W/John E. Drabinski
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The Black Studies Podcast
Brian Kwoba - Department of History, University of Memphis
This 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 Brian Kwoba, who teaches in the Department of History at University of Memp...
2025-07-28
47 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman - Department of English, Coppin State University
This 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 Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, who teaches in the Department of English at Coppin Stat...
2025-07-23
51 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Mari Crabtree - African American Studies and History, Emerson College
This 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 Mari Crabtree, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emerson College in the...
2025-07-01
52 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Darius Spearman - Program in Black Studies, San Diego City College
This 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 Darius Spearman, who teaches in the program in Black Studies at San Dieg...
2025-06-24
55 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Katherine McKittrick - Department of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen's University
This 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 Katherine McKittrick, who teaches in the Department of Gender Studies and is Cana...
2025-06-13
1h 01
The Black Studies Podcast
Kaila Story - Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville
This 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 Kaila Story, who is the Audre Lorde Endowed Chair at the University of L...
2025-06-09
1h 02
The Black Studies Podcast
Tamara J. Walker - Department of Africana Studies, Barnard College
This 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 Tamara J. Walker, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Barn...
2025-06-06
40 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Taelore Marsh, Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archives Archivist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This 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 Taelore Marsh, Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archives Archivist to the Robert S. Cox...
2025-06-04
44 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Fanon Che Wilkins - Department of History, Pasadena City College
This 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 Fanon Che Wilkins, who teaches in the Department of History at Pasadena City...
2025-06-02
56 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Eola Lewis Dance and Jennie K. Williams - Kinfolkology Project, Howard University and University of Virginia
This 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 Eola Dance and Jennie K. Williams, co-founders and directors of the Kinfolkology proj...
2025-05-26
57 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Stephanie Shonekan - Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland
This 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 Stephanie Shonekan, who is Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at U...
2025-05-21
39 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Kojo Damptey - Musician and School of Social Work, McMaster University
This 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 Kojo Damptey, a musician and scholar who is completing doctoral studies in the...
2025-05-19
42 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Corey D.B. Walker - Dean of the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University
This 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 Corey D.B. Walker, who is Dean of the School of Divinity at W...
2025-05-16
57 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Paul Joseph López Oro - Program in Africana Studies, Bryn Mawr College
This 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 Paul Joseph López Oro, who teaches in and is the director of th...
2025-05-12
1h 07
The Black Studies Podcast
Theodore R. Foster III - Department of History, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
This 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 Theodore Foster III, who teaches in the Department of History, Geography, and Phil...
2025-05-05
1h 07
The Black Studies Podcast
M. Shadee Malaklou - Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of The bell hooks Center, Berea College
This 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 M. Shadee Malaklou, who is Chair of and teaches in the Department of W...
2025-04-30
51 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Matthew Simmons - Program in African American Studies, University of Alabama, Birmingham
This 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 Matthew Simmons, who teaches in the Program in African American Studies at Univ...
2025-04-25
1h 02
The Black Studies Podcast
Kelli Morgan - Founding Executive Director, Black Artists Archive
This 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 Kelli Morgan, who is Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in D...
2025-04-18
54 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Charles Athanasopoulos - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
This 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 Charles Athanasopoulos, who teaches in the Department of African American and African Stud...
2025-04-16
52 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Kesewa John - Department of History, Goldsmiths University
This 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 Kesewa John, who teaches in the Department of History at Goldsmiths University in L...
2025-04-11
1h 13
The Black Studies Podcast
Marlene Daut - Departments of French and African American Studies, Yale University
This 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 Marlene Daut, who teaches in the Departments of French and African American Stud...
2025-04-07
50 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Charlene Carruthers - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University
This 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 Charlene Carruthers, who is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Black Stud...
2025-04-04
1h 00
The Black Studies Podcast
Michele Reid-Vazquez - Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Bowdoin College
This 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 Michele Reid-Vazquez, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Bowdoin Coll...
2025-04-02
55 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Courtney R. Baker - Department of English, University of California, Riverside
This 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 Courtney Baker, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Cali...
2025-03-31
58 min
The Black Studies Podcast
LaTaSha Levy - Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University
This 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 La TaSha Levy, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Howa...
2025-03-26
1h 08
The Black Studies Podcast
Derrick White - Department of African American and African Studies, University of Kentucky
This 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 Derrick White, who teaches in the Department of African American and Africana Stud...
2025-03-21
1h 09
The Black Studies Podcast
Ashley Smith-Purviance - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
This 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 Ashley Smith-Purviance, who teaches in the Department of African American and African Stud...
2025-03-17
53 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Brie Gorrell, Ashley Newby, and John E. Drabinski - Departments of Africana Studies and English, University of Maryland
This is Brie Gorrell 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, graduate and undergraduate 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 between myself, Ashley Newby, and John Drabinski, hosts of The Black Studies Podc...
2025-03-15
46 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Sharon P. Holland - Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
This 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 Sharon P. Holland, who teaches in the Department of American Studies at Univ...
2025-03-14
55 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Fred Moten - Department of Performance Studies, New York University
This 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 Fred Moten, who teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York...
2025-03-10
47 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Abdul Alkalimat - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
This 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 Abdul Alkalimat, Professor Emeritus in the Department of African American Studies at Univ...
2025-03-06
1h 22
The Black Studies Podcast
Zebulon Miletsky - Department of Africana Studies, Stony Brook University
This 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 Zebulon Miletsky, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Broo...
2025-02-28
1h 07
The Black Studies Podcast
Alex Lubin - Department of African American Studies, Penn State University
This 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 Alex Lubin, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Penn...
2025-02-26
55 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Elizabeth Hamilton - Art History and African American Studies, Fort Valley State University
This 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 Elizabeth Hamilton, who teaches art history and African American studies at Fort Vall...
2025-02-21
48 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Grant Farred - Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University
This 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...
2025-02-19
1h 08
The Black Studies Podcast
Noliwe Rooks - Department of Africana Studies, Brown University
This 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 Noliwe Rooks, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown Univ...
2025-02-14
1h 06
The Black Studies Podcast
Anthony Smith and Geo Maher - W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction
This 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 Anthony Smith and Geo Maher, both of whom work as coordinators with the...
2025-02-12
1h 09
The Black Studies Podcast
Jared Ball - Program in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Morgan State University
This 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 Jared Ball, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Morgan Stat...
2025-02-07
1h 06
The Black Studies Podcast
Gabrielle Williams - Department of Literary Studies, New School for Social Research
This 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 Gabrielle Williams, who teaches in the Department of Literary Studies at the New...
2025-02-03
58 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Khalil Saucier - Department of Critical Black Studies, Bucknell University
This 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 Khalil Saucier, who teaches in the Department of Critical Black Studies at Buck...
2025-01-29
1h 02
The Black Studies Podcast
Chevy Eugene - Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University
This 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 Chevy Eugene, who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie Univ...
2025-01-27
52 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Layla Brown - Departments of Anthropology and Sociology and Africana Studies, Northeastern University
This 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 Layla Brown, who teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Afri...
2025-01-22
1h 01
The Black Studies Podcast
Sarah Jane Cervenak - Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
This 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 Sarah Jane Cervenak, who teaches in the Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Se...
2025-01-17
48 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Walter Greason - Department of History, Macalester College
This 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 Walter Greason, who teaches in the Department of History at Macalester College. In a...
2025-01-13
53 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Saida Grundy - Departments of Sociology and African American and Black Diaspora Studies, Boston University
This 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 Saida Grundy, who teaches in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology at B...
2025-01-10
1h 12
The Black Studies Podcast
Reighan Gillam - Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College
This 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 Reighan Gillam, who teaches in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Cari...
2025-01-06
49 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland
This is Ashley Newby 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 between me and John E. Drabinski, my department colleague in the Department of African American and Africana St...
2024-12-19
43 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Ed Pavlić - Department of English and African American Studies, University of Georgia
This 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 Ed Pavlić, Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the U...
2024-12-17
1h 06
The Black Studies Podcast
Reiland Rabaka - Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
This 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 Reiland Rabaka, who teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of C...
2024-12-10
1h 16
The Black Studies Podcast
Zalika U. Ibaorimi - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
This 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 Zalika U. Ibaorimi, who works under the artist name N0HumanInv0lved (N.H...
2024-12-03
57 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Stephanie Sparling Williams - Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum
This 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 Stephanie Sparling Williams, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the...
2024-11-27
53 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Robin Means Coleman - Department of Media Studies and African American and African Studies, University of Virginia
This 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 Robin Means Coleman, Professor of Media Studies and of African American and Afri...
2024-11-21
54 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Jervette R. Ward - Department of Black Studies, City College of New York
This 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 Jervette R. Ward, who teaches in and chairs the newly re-established Department of B...
2024-11-19
43 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Rita Kiki Edozie - Professor of Global Governance, University of Massachusetts-Boston
This is Ashley Newby 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 episode features Rita Kiki Edozie, the Deval Patrick Endowed Chair of Political, Economic, and Social Innovation and Professor of Gl...
2024-11-14
51 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Juanita Stephen - Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies, University of Windsor
This 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 Juanita Stephen, who teaches in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies at U...
2024-11-12
55 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Philip V. McHarris - Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, University of Rochester
This 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 Philip McHarris, who teaches in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Blac...
2024-11-08
1h 03
The Black Studies Podcast
Neil Roberts - Department of Africana Studies, Williams College
This 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 Neil Roberts, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Africana Studies at W...
2024-11-04
1h 16
The Black Studies Podcast
Donelle Boose - Department of History and African American Studies Program, Randolph-Macon College
This 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 Donelle Boose, who teaches in the Department of History and African American Stud...
2024-11-01
56 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Ashanté Reese - Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin
This 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 Ashanté Reese, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the U...
2024-10-30
59 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Kameelah Martin - Department of African American Studies, College of Charleston
This 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 Kameelah Martin, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the...
2024-10-28
56 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus - Department of English, University of Southern California
This 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 Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, who teaches in the Department of English at the University of S...
2024-10-25
1h 04
The Black Studies Podcast
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. - Department of African American Studies, Princeton University
This 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 Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., who is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in t...
2024-10-23
44 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Biko Caruthers - Department of English, New York University
This 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 Biko Caruthers, assistant professor and Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Engl...
2024-10-18
56 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Willie Mack - Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri
This 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 Willie Mack, who teaches in the Department of Black Studies at the Univ...
2024-10-16
52 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Sonya Donaldson - Department of African American Studies, Colby College
This 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 Sonya Donaldson, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Colb...
2024-10-14
58 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Courtney Terry - Department of Black Studies, Portland State University
This 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 Courtney Terry, assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State University in Port...
2024-10-09
1h 03
The Black Studies Podcast
Elena Guzman - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University
This 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 Elena Guzman, who teaches in the Department of African American and African Dias...
2024-10-07
51 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Christin Washington - Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
This 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 Christin Washington, a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at Univ...
2024-10-04
59 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Qiana Whitted - Department of English and African American Studies Program, University of South Carolina
This 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 Qiana Whitted, who teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature and...
2024-09-30
47 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Christina Knight - Department of Art History, Rutgers University
This 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 Christina Knight, who teaches in the Department of Art History at Rutgers Univ...
2024-09-25
46 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Mark Anthony Neal - Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University
This 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 Mark Anthony Neal, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African Amer...
2024-09-19
54 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Wendyliz Martinez - ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
This 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 Wendyliz Martinez, a 2024 ACLS Leading Edge fellow where she works with the New...
2024-09-12
54 min
The Black Studies Podcast
J. Kameron Carter - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
This 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 J. Kameron Carter, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at U...
2024-09-05
1h 09
The Black Studies Podcast
Austin Lee - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Boston University
This 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 Austin Lee, a postdoctoral scholar at the Boston University Society of Fellows speci...
2024-08-29
44 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Courtney Joseph - Department of History and African American Studies, Lake Forest College
This 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 Courtney Joseph, who teaches in the departments of History and African American Stud...
2024-08-27
1h 04
The Black Studies Podcast
Sophia Jahadhmy and Sofia Meadows-Muriel - Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University
This 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 Sophia Jahadhmy and Sofia Meadows-Muriel, doctoral candidates in the Department of Africana Stud...
2024-08-22
1h 07
The Black Studies Podcast
Erika Denise Edwards - Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso
This 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 Erika Denise Edwards, an associate professor of history at the University of Texa...
2024-08-15
57 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Rinaldo Walcott - Department of Africana and American Studies, University of Buffalo
This 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 Rinaldo Walcott, who teaches in the Department of Africana and American Studies at U...
2024-08-08
1h 11
The Black Studies Podcast
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - Department of African American Studies, Princeton University
This 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 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Prin...
2024-08-06
1h 11
The Black Studies Podcast
David Ikard - Department of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University
This 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 David Ikard, who teaches in the Department of African American and Diaspora Stud...
2024-08-01
1h 11
The Black Studies Podcast
Charisse Burden-Stelly - Department of African American Studies, Wayne State University
This 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 Charisse Burden-Stelly, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Wayn...
2024-07-30
44 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Shaida Akbarian - Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
This 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 Shaida Akbarian, who teaches in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio Stat...
2024-07-23
43 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Stephanie Jones and Makeba Lavan - Department of African Diaspora Studies, Grinnell College
This 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 two of the founding members of the newly launched Department of African Dias...
2024-07-16
1h 26
The Black Studies Podcast
Michael E. Sawyer - Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
This 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 Michael E. Sawyer, who teaches in the Department of English at the University of Pi...
2024-07-09
1h 02
The Black Studies Podcast
John Murillo III - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
This 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 John Murillo III, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at t...
2024-07-03
1h 17
The Black Studies Podcast
Deirdre Cooper Owens - Department of History and Africana Studies Institute, University of Connecticut
This 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 Deirdre Cooper Owens, who teaches in the Department of History with an appo...
2024-07-01
53 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Martha Biondi - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University
This 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 Martha Biondi, Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University. She...
2024-06-29
46 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Mary Hicks - Department of History, University of Chicago
This 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 Mary Hicks, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of C...
2024-06-22
55 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Utz McKnight - Department of Gender and Race Studies, University of Alabama
This 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 Utz McKnight, Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the...
2024-06-17
1h 03
The Black Studies Podcast
Naila Ansari, John Torrey, and Marcus Watson - Department of Africana Studies, Buffalo State University
This 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 three faculty members from the Department of Africana Studies at Buffalo State Univ...
2024-06-13
1h 13
The Black Studies Podcast
Huey Hewitt - Department of African American Studies, Harvard University
This 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 Huey Hewitt, a late-stage doctoral student in the Department of African American Stud...
2024-06-11
48 min
The Black Studies Podcast
Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland
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 between the two collaborators on this project, Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski. As colleagues in the Department of A...
2024-05-09
53 min
Fashioning Critical Theory
Murray and Ellison on Blues, Memory, Embodiment, and the Origins of Tradition
This podcast is bookended by musical pieces by Arthur Cooper, Malaco Records recording artist and great grandfather of participant and University of Maryland doctoral student Timmy R. Bridgeman.A conversation about Albert Murray's The Hero and the Blues and two essays by Ralph Ellison, "Living with Music" and "Blues People." In this discussion, we explore the relation between Murray's and Ellison's development of blues as a form of thought, life, and expressive culture and ideas of tradition. With particular emphasis on and extension of blues and jazz as "idea emotions" (Ellison), we link their work to ideas...
2023-02-17
52 min
Spike Lee's Joints
6 - Memory and the Moral Horizon of School Daze
A reflection on the opening credits to School Daze, and the sound and image that makes it work as the moral horizon of the film. In setting a series of images in relation to a Spiritual, Lee stages the stakes of the body of the film - what it means to live, act, and inhabit the horizon of Black righteousness with moral and political responsibility.
2022-12-07
24 min
Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Sarah Jane Cervenak on Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life
John E. Drabinski hosts a discussion with Sarah Jane Cervenak, who teaches in the departments of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of a number of critical essays on African American art and literature with particular focus on Black feminist writing and performance, and has written two books - Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom (Duke, 2014) and Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, and Ungiven Life (Duke, 2021), which is the occasion for our conversation today. In this discussion, we explore the motivations and aims of the...
2022-12-06
1h 14
Spike Lee's Joints
5 - Bamboozled, Nihilism, and the Problem of Exit
In a second discussion of Bamboozled, I continue a discussion of the film's pessimism and elements, small and suggestive only, that direct us towards paths of exit. I focus in particular on how minstrelsy haunts the film, our culture, and the possibilities of expressive life in an antiblack world - with specific reference to the scene in which the minstrel coin bank begins working on its own, without Delacroix's hand. The ghostly character of minstrelsy articulates how the past forms cultural production in the present, leaving us with an arc of nihilism. Are there paths out of that nihilism? I...
2022-12-05
24 min
Spike Lee's Joints
4 - The Afropessimism of Bamboozled
In this discussion, I explore the pessimism of Spike Lee's Bamboozled, a 2000 film that offers a thought experiment: what would happen if television broadcast a minstrel series? What are the theoretical foundations of the claims coming out of this experiment? Lee, I claim, is drawing on the key insights of afropessimism, in particular the claim that antiblackness is an ontology of our world - the origin of our personal, collective, and shared world being - and therefore saturates all forms of representation, feeling, performance, and judgement. This allows us to see how the film is melancholic, pessimistic, and largely...
2022-12-04
22 min
Spike Lee's Joints
3 - Hollywood Shuffle and the Question of Crisis
A discussion of Robert Townsend's 1987 film Hollywood Shuffle and how it both articulates and addresses a sense of crisis in making films with and about Black people. I am particularly concerned with how Townsend engages two senses of crisis. One, registering a sense of enduring violence against Black bodies, people, and life in the history of American cinema. Two, understanding crisis as the intersection of limit and possibility, in which historical violence meets closure in Hollywood Shuffle and, inside the film, through irony and hyperbole, opens up new senses of cinematic possibility.
2022-12-04
24 min
Spike Lee's Joints
2 - Hollywood Shuffle and Representation
As a way of preparing for analysis of Spike Lee's cinema, I reflect here on how Robert Townsend's 1987 film Hollywood Shuffle poses a series of challenges to filmmaking and the representation of Black people and Black life on the screen. In particular, I am interested in his critique of Hollywood's racial history - a critique made by plain reportage - and how he uses humor to double our relationship to the film and also how he negotiates the precarious cultural politics of the white gaze, the Black gaze, and the interracial space of cinematic viewership. Townsend takes risks and s...
2022-12-04
20 min
Spike Lee's Joints
1 - Preliminary Notes for Reading Spike Lee; or A Black Studies Hermeneutic
In this opening episode, I describe my interpretative frame for Spike Lee's cinema, focusing on the terms and imperatives Lee brings to cinematic practice - the burden and beauty of representing Black bodies, Black people, and Black life - and how that forms what I call a Black Studies approach to film. My interpretative frame, then, follows Lee's leading clues, but embellishes them with the African American intellectual tradition and its combination of aesthetics, ethics, and politics.
2022-12-04
23 min