Dr. Sharlene Sinegal Decuir is an Associate Professor and History Department Chair at Xavier Univerity of Louisiana (XULA), the nation's only historically black and catholic university. Dr. Sinegal Decuir opens up and shares her personal experiences with "The Network," detailing how she found herself, the challenges she faced on her way to tenure and what America must do to stop repeating its mistakes.
Instagram: @sharlenesinegal
Website: www.sinegal-decuir.com or xula.com (Dr. Sinegal Decuir can be found under History Dept.)
Current reading/Recommended Reads:
How to be an Antiracist, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History or Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans, Harriet A. Washington
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, Danielle McGuire
Gender & Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of Jim Crow in North Carolina, Glenda Gilmore
White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin Diangelo
Slavery by Another Name: The Race Enslavement of Black America from the Civil War to WWII, Douglas Blackmon
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, Tom Burrell
Currently listening/Recommended Music:
Country: Kane Brown, Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs
Old School/90s R&B: Tevin Campbell, Monica, XScape, Mary J. Blige etc
New School: Megan the Stallion, Cardi B
The Network with Michael Prejean (!shameless plug!)
Finally, "You Didn't Ask," but..."Save your money & pay your bills on time. Speak and live your own truth. Be the bearer of your own bones. We are allowed to make mistakes, learn from them."