Left of Black S2:E18 | Thinking While Black: Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill

Left of Black S2:E18 | February 6, 2012
Thinking While Blackwith Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill
Left ofBlack hostand Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype©by Tulane University politicalscience professor Melissa Harris Perry,author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press).Perry discusses the "politics" of Black women and what she terms a "mis-recognition"of Black women as citizens.  Nealand Harris Perry contemplate the recent fascination with Black women's"unmarriagability" and her soon to be launched weekend news show on MSNBC.Later, Neal is joined via Skype© by Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professorof Education at the Teachers Collegeof Columbia University.  Hill isco-author, with celebrated political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal,  ofthe new book  The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations of Black Life in America .  Neal and Hill discuss the importance ofblack independent publishing, of communicating to broader publics beyond theAcademy.  Lastly, Hill talks about the importance young people engagingAbu-Jamal's incarceration in order to form a long-lasting movement againstinjustice.  
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