Left of Black S2:E3 w/ Lester Spence and Lawrence P. Jackson

Left of Black S2:E3 w/Lester Spence and Lawrence P. JacksonSeptember26, 2011

Left ofBlackhost  and Duke University ProfessorMark Anthony Neal is joined by LesterSpence , Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and author of Starein the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics .  Spencediscusses why people are still apprehensive about hip-hop culture, the role ofthe "neo-liberal hustler entrepreneur," and grassroots hip-hoporganizations.  Spence also talks about the challenges of studying hip-hopand politics.  
Later Neal is joined by Professor Lawrence P. Jackson ,Professor of English and African American Studies at Emory University, author of The Indignant Generation: ANarrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 and RalphEllison: The Emergence of Genius .  Jackson considers the periodbetween the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement, and addresses thedebates among black authors during this period.  Jackson also discussesreaders' initial reaction to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and the challenges of publishing scholarlynon-fiction with contemporary trade presses.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcasthosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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