Left of Black S6:E3: #ProfessoringWhileBlack with Blair L.M. Kelley
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined by Historian Blair L.M. Kelley (
@profblmkelley), author of
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson and host of the podcast
Historical Blackness. Professor Kelley is Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs at North Carolina State University.
Professor Kelley discusses the challenges and impact of scholarship that engages a broad public, including the fraught relationship that academics may have with social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the
John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).
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Published on September 28, 2015 14:53