On the February 25th ‘Left of Black’ Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science Fiction, Consuming Black Culture & the Late Butch Morris

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Goode, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Smokey Fontaine, Jon Caramanica, Jeff Chang, Amy Linden, Tom Terrell, Mark Anthony Neal, Tricia Rose, Sasha Jenkins, DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), Dream Hampton, Miles Marshall Lewis, Aliya King, SekouWrites, Kenji Jasper, Oliver Wang, Cheo Hodari Coker, Keith Murphy or myself.”  Gonzales offers high praise for one of the singular critical voices of the last 30 years.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The author of several books including the classic <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/F... in the Buttermilk: </i><i>Essays on Contemporary America</i></a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> (1993)  and the edited volume <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0... But the Burden</i></a>: </span><i><span style="font-family: Times;">What White People Are Taking From Black Culture </span></i><span style="font-family: Times;">(2003)</span><span style="font-family: Times;">, </span><span style="font-family: Times;">Greg Tate joins <b>Left of Black</b> host <b>Mark Anthony Neal</b>(via Skype) in a rousing discussion of Black Science Fiction, being a “gourmand” of Black Culture and the significance of the late musical conductor Butch Morris.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Tate is the longtime conductor of </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://burntsugarindex.com/about-the-... Sugar the Arkestra Chamber</a>, a former <i>Village Voice</i> Staff Writer and currently <a href="http://brown.edu/Departments/Africana... Professor</a> of Africana Studies at Brown University.  Duke University Press will publish <i>Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader</i> next year.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&... style="color: blue;">Left of Black</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinC... style="color: blue;">FranklinCenterAtDuke</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> Channel on Youtube: </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinC... style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan</span></span>