Dawn-Elissa Fischer - Department Of Anthropology, San Francisco State University The Black Studies podcast

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Serie McDougal - Department of Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles 36:32

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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 with Serie McDougal , who teaches in the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Research Methods in Africana Studies , which was published in 2014. In this conversation, we discuss questions of method and discipline in Black Studies, psychological and sociological aspects of research into Black life, and the ebb and flow of the field’s popularity and visibility.…

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Marlene Daut - Departments of French and African American Studies, Yale University 50:59

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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 Studies at Yale University. Along with numerous articles in public and scholarly venues, she is the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2015); Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017); Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (2023); and most recently The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (2025). In this conversation, we discuss the place of Haiti in the Black Studies imagination, the creative and archival dimension of writing history, and the significance of transnational study in the field.…

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Charlene Carruthers - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University 1:00:15

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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 Studies at Northwestern University. She is a writer, filmmaker, and community organizer who is exploring questions of race, place, neighborhood, and urban space in her doctoral work. In this conversation, we discuss the importance of geography and urban studies for Black Studies research, the racial politics of cityscapes and neighborhood configuration, and the place of study and intellectual work in Black liberation struggle.…

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Michele Reid-Vazquez - Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Bowdoin College 55:08

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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 College. Along with numerous scholarly articles, she is the author of The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World and is completing a manuscript tentatively entitled Black Mobilities in the Age of Revolution: Politics, Migration, and Freedom in the Caribbean . She is also the host of the podcast Dialogues in Afrolatinidad, a series exploring the history and culture of black Latin America. In this conversation, we discuss the place of the hispanophone world in thinking the African diaspora, the varied notions and experiences of blackness that comprise Black Studies, and the complex relation between archival sources and the storytelling elements of writing history.…

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Courtney R. Baker - Department of English, University of California, Riverside 58:09

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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 California, Riverside. Along with numerous articles in public and scholarly venues on art and the aesthetic, she is the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death (2015). In a previous position, she was the co-founder and Chair of the Department of Black Studies at Occidental College. In this conversation, we discuss the place of art and aesthetic inquiry in Black Studies, the role of tradition in building knowledge in Black study, and the significance of the field for Black liberation struggle.…

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Alexander Weheliye - Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University 44:46

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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 discussion is with Alexander Weheliye, who teaches in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of numerous articles and three critical books: Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005), Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014), and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (2023). In this conversation, we explore the boundaries Black Studies research, the expansiveness of its archive, and the place of cultural and political responsibility inside and outside classroom and campus work.…

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LaTaSha Levy - Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University 1:08:18

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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 Howard University. Her research focuses on the fraught place of Black conservatism in the history of African American political life and dissent. She is also the founder of Black Star Rising, a Black Studies curricula and consulting enterprise focused on expanding access to Black Studies beyond the ivory tower. She provides professional development training and Black history curricula for schools and school districts and collaborates with dedicated teachers on K-12 instruction in Black Studies and Ethnic Studies. Since 2022, she has served as scholar-in-residence with A Long Talk About the Uncomfortable Truth, an antiracist activation experience. Prior to graduate study, La TaSha taught Humanities at Maya Angelou Public Charter High School in D.C., which was co-founded by James Forman, Jr. She also has experience working in Student Affairs, having served as the director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia. In this conversation, we discuss the singular contributions of the field of Black Studies, its internal debates and conflicts, and how Black Studies remains a centerpiece for understanding liberation struggle in a time of deep political crisis.…

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Stacie McCormick - Department of English, Texas Christian University 45:31

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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 discussion is with Stacie McCormick, who teaches in the Department of English, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research examines representations of the body, land, sexuality, and the ongoing resonance of slavery in contemporary Black writing and performance and she is the author of Staging Black Fugitivity and editor of a special issue of College Literature on the them of "Toni Morrison and Adaptation." In this conversation, we discuss gender, race, and the history of medicine, how issues arising from that intersection open important horizons in the field of Black Studies, and the persistence and insistent character of Black Studies as an area of study.…

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Derrick White - Department of African American and African Studies, University of Kentucky 1:09:25

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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 Studies at University of Kentucky. He has published widely on African American intellectual history and the cultural study of sports, and is the author of The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s (2011) and Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football (2019). In this discussion, we explore the relation of historical work to political struggle, the place of cultural study in the Black Studies imagination, and the fecundity of post-disciplinary thinking for the field.…

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Jeffrey Ogbar - Department of History, University of Connecticut 50:26

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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 discussion is with Jeffery Ogbar, who teaches in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut where he is also the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music . He is the author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (2004) and Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap (2007), as well as editor of Civil Rights: Problems in American Civilization (Houghton Mifflin 2003), The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts and Letters (2010), and co-editor with Erica R. Edwards and Roderick A. Ferguson of Keywords for African American Studies (2018). In this conversation, we discuss the place of history in the field of Black Studies and the importance of a Black Studies understanding of historical research in times of political crisis.…

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Ashley Smith-Purviance - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University 53:47

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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 Studies at Ohio State University. Her work is focused on Black girlhood, memory, and the relationship between ethnography, self-authorship, and lived experience. She is the author of the forthcoming book titled, (Un)Schooling Black Girls: Navigating Suburbia, Anti-Black-Girl Violence, and Mechanisms of School Survival and has produced the digital humanities project The Rolling Archives of Black Girlhood , a digital scrapbook that amplifies the voices of Black women and girls by uncovering the spaces and experiences that shape them. In this discussion, we explore the relation between gender and ethnographic research, childhood and its place in the Black Studies imagination, and how Black study expands the archive of Black life.…

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Brie Gorrell, Ashley Newby, and John E. Drabinski - Departments of Africana Studies and English, University of Maryland 46:47

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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 Podcast, reflecting on the 100th episode and what the series has taught us about the meaning of Black study and Black Studies. We discuss the unique contributions made by the field of Black Studies, how critical framings across the series impact pedagogy and research, and what sorts of hopes, aspirations, and expectations we have for the future of the podcast.…

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Sharon P. Holland - Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 55:01

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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 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . Along with numerous articles and editing work, she is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (2000), The Erotic Life of Racism (2012), and an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life (2023). As well, she is co-host of the podcast Dog Save The People . In this discussion, we explore questions of gender, animal life, and politics and how they open up new horizons in the field of Black Studies.…

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Marisa Fuentes - Department of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University 40:56

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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 discussion is with Marisa Fuentes, who teaches in the departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University . Her research interests are interdisciplinary and focus on histories of gender, slavery, the Caribbean and Black Atlantic worlds. Along with a number of scholarly articles and edited collections, she is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive , which won book prizes from the Association of Black Women Historians, The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and The Barbara T. Christian Best Humanities Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association. In this conversation, we discuss how Black Studies informs critical historical research, the theoretical and ethical problem of reading for silences, and how practices of careful, archive-attuned fabulation have deep and abiding impact on Black Atlantic and Black women's history.…

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Fred Moten - Department of Performance Studies, New York University 47:46

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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 University. He is the author of a number of volumes of poetry, including most recently All That Beauty (2019) and perennial fashion, presence falling (2023), and multiple critical books that include In the Break (2003), the trilogy Consent Not to be a Single Being published in 2017 and 2018, and with Stefano Harney The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) . In this conversation, we discuss the nature of the field of Black Studies, what lessons it has for thinking politically in the present moment, and how Black study transforms notions of liberation struggle, Black life, and expressive culture.…

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