Ubuntu Peoples Podcast -- Mark Anthony Neal: The Epistemology of M.A.N.s Interiority Complex

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Episode #73 with Oronde Ash -- Dr. Mark Anthony Neal: The Epistemology of M.A.N.s Interiority Complex

'Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities. He and I have been in the same rooms at events in Durham the past two years but never had a conversation until this interview. I wanted to find out how Dr. Neal became the M.A.N. he is, what forces shaped his intellect and scholarship --as a youth. I found out that it began on his stoop in the Bronx listening to his mother and the residents on the block talk about everything. It was nurtured by his parents who fed his intellect, and cultivated as an only child learning to be comfortable with himself and his ideas. I found out he and I attended the same high school--Brooklyn Tech--found power and purpose when given time and space to develop our particular Black perspectives, that we hold some of the same fears and hopes for the promise of Blackness to come.'