Mark Anthony Neal's Blog, page 396

Cite Black Women S1:E3: “Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism & Citation with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry"

'Keisha Khan Perry is a feminist anthropologist and political activist whose research focuses on urban social movements against the violence of forced displacement. She is the author of the prize-winning book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, an ethnographic study of black women’s activism for housing and land rights in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador.' -- Cite Black Women 

Chef's Memoir Tackles What It's Like To Be Young, Gifted And Black In Fine Dining

'Kwame Onwuachi's new memoir, Notes From A Young Black Chef, isn't just about his rise from poverty to celebrated restaurateur. It's also a meditation on being a black man in a rarefied world.' -- The Salt

Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM

'Ruthie Lyle, Ph.D. outlines the advantages, challenges, and future outlook for minority women in STEM during her Wednesdays at the Center lecture at Duke University.' -- John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University

Lil Nas X, Country Music's Unlikely Son, Sparks Conversation On Genre And Race

'Lil Nas X's viral hit "Old Town Road" was pulled from Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart, raising questions over discrimination in the country music industry.' -- Morning Edition

Bill Posley: 'The Day I Became Black'

'Comedian Bill Posley joins us to talk about his show, The Day I Became Black , which is now playing at the SoHo Playhouse.' -- All Of It
         
        

Left of Black S9: E15: Robert Reid-Pharr on Aging, Living Life as an Intellectual and Black Queer Studies

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal  is joined in the studio by professor, Robert Reid-Pharr, author of many books including Conjugal Union: The Body, The House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999), Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York University Press, 2007), and most recently, Archives of the Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (New York University Press, 2016), which Michelle Wright describes as, “a daring and beautifully written book, offering reflections on the current state of Black studies and the sociopolitical and geographical locations of Blackness that inform our dominant discourses.” Reid-Pharr is a Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

Left of Black S9: E15: Robert Reid-Pharr on Aging, Living Life as an Intellectual and the of Black Queer Studies

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal  is joined in the studio by professor, Robert Reid-Pharr, author of many books including Conjugal Union: The Body, The House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999), Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York University Press, 2007), and most recently, Archives of the Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (New York University Press, 2016), which Michelle Wright describes as, “a daring and beautifully written book, offering reflections on the current state of Black studies and the sociopolitical and geographical locations of Blackness that inform our dominant discourses.” Reid-Pharr is a Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Points To Reconstruction As The Genesis Of White Supremacy

'In his new book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, the literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents an absorbing, necessary look at the "Redemption" era, in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites.' -- Fresh Air

This Is For 'The Undefeated': A New Picture Book Celebrates Black Brilliance

'In The Undefeated, artist Kadir Nelson illustrates generations of black American heroes "emerging from the shadows." "It begins with Jesse Owens literally jumping out of the darkness into the light ..." Nelson says. "By the time we get to toward the middle and end of the book those shadows have disappeared and the brilliance and excellence of the subjects have completely emerged into the bright light." The text of the book is a poem Kwame Alexander wrote in 2008. Alexander's second daughter, Samayah had just been born, and Barack Obama had recently won election as the first African-American president of the United States. "This poem was my tribute to both," Alexander writes.' -- All Things Considered

'Native Son' Is Reborn, In 'Still Kind Of The Same America'

'In the classic 1940 novel Native Son, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas dreams of a life beyond his impoverished Chicago neighborhood. As in the book, the new Native Son movie begins with Bigger killing a huge rat in his house, where he lives with his siblings and their single mother. His troubles accelerate after he gets hired as a driver for the Daltons, a wealthy white family. But this time, the story is set in contemporary times. The new retelling of Richard Wright 's novel debuts on HBO this Saturday, April 6. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. And the adaptation was directed by artist Rashid Johnson.' --  Morning Edition