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Episode 2: African American Political Thought, Part 1
While the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s — Supreme Court victories, sit-ins and marches — provides the enduring images of African American political activism in public memory, the civil rights era both emerged from and gave rise to broader and more eclectic traditions of cultural and intellectual work. Our guests this week explore the ways in which African American politics conceives of the self, the community, and the state in ways that include, but go beyond, the legalistic picture denoted by “rights talk.” This episode discusses the role of performance, music, storytelling and political emotions in doing the imaginative labor of envisioning habitable political futures.
In this episode we’re speaking with:
Dr. Shana Redmond, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California. Author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora. New York University Press, 2013.
Dr. Nick Bromell, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Massachusetts. Author of The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Dr. Angela Ards, Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Author of Words of Witness: Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era. University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.
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By Derek GottliebWhile the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s — Supreme Court victories, sit-ins and marches — provides the enduring images of African American political activism in public memory, the civil rights era both emerged from and gave rise to broader and more eclectic traditions of cultural and intellectual work. Our guests this week explore the ways in which African American politics conceives of the self, the community, and the state in ways that include, but go beyond, the legalistic picture denoted by “rights talk.” This episode discusses the role of performance, music, storytelling and political emotions in doing the imaginative labor of envisioning habitable political futures.
In this episode we’re speaking with:
Dr. Shana Redmond, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California. Author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora. New York University Press, 2013.
Dr. Nick Bromell, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Massachusetts. Author of The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Dr. Angela Ards, Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Author of Words of Witness: Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era. University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.