The Black Studies Podcast

Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski

The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

  1. Ronald Angelo Johnson - Department of History, Baylor University

    hace 4 días

    Ronald Angelo Johnson - Department of History, Baylor University

    This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today's conversation is with Ronald Angelo Johnson, Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Professor of History at Baylor University. His latest book Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution, published in 2025 by Cornell University Press, is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution, which brings to light the fascinating story of American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) allying against European tyranny. Entangled Alliances has received the Texas Institute of Letters Honor Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award. Johnson is currently working on the book We Are All Equal: Turmoil and Triumph in the Early United States and Revolutionary Haiti (under contract with Princeton University Press), a diplomatic history of race and revolution, illustrating that Americans and Haitians shared important understandings of liberty. His first book was Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance, and he is the co-editor (with Ousmane Power-Greene) of the book In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. Johnson serves as Steward of the Ella Wall Prichard Fund for Early Black Baptist History (EBBH) at Baylor University, which supports the study, research, and documentation of Black Baptist life and thought in North America up to 1866.

    1 h 1 min
  2. Christel N. Temple - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

    25 may

    Christel N. Temple - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

    This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today’s conversation is with Christel Temple, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on Africana cultural memory studies, Pan-Africanism, the intersection of History and Literature, comparative Black literature, and Afroeuropean Studies. Along with numerous scholarly articles, including —"A Value Added Module for Introduction to Black Studies:  Speaking in the Disciplines and Africana Market Value," in Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education, she is the author of Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005), Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise (2017), Black Cultural Mythology (2020), and co-editor with James L. Conyers, Jr. of Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory (2022). In this conversation, we discuss the distinctiveness of Black Studies methods and disciplinary work, the transformative work of Black study in the classroom, and how Black Studies works both inside and outside traditional disciplines and areas of study.

    1 h
  3. Tanisha M. Jackson - Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University

    18 may

    Tanisha M. Jackson - Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University

    This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today’s conversation is with Tanisha M. Jackson, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University where she is also Executive Director of the Community Folk Art Center. Her research focuses on the place of community art practice and education in liberation struggle. Along with a number of scholarly essays and curated exhibitions, she is the author Black Women's Art Ecosystems: Sites of Wellness and Self-care (2025), which was awarded the Anna Julia Cooper and CLR James award for outstanding publication in Africana Studies (National Council for Black Studies). She recently received an National Endowment for the Arts grant for the Community Folk Art Center's inaugural artists in residency program and she is the founder and host of the film series, Black Arts Speak. In this conversation, we discuss the place of art in the field of Black Studies, how art and community expand our sense of liberation work, and how the Black Studies classroom links the personal, the communal, and the aesthetic.

    45 min

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The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

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