Make it Plain Kehinde Andrews

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses a current case in Barbuda being fought about the construction of a new private airport and beach developments by largely US, UK, and Chinese foreigners. It's a fight by local "land defenders" against foreign multinationals carving up the island for tourism, "freedom," and tax reduction purposes. Developers are destroying the island's resources, including food security, culture, and livelihoods This case is part of a larger problem with the Carribean's legacy as slave colonies. 
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This is going to be the final episode of Season 1 of MIP's Black Studies Podcast Series, we hope you've enjoyed it! To wrap it up, this week Kehinde Andrews asks a mixture of Black Studies undergraduates and MA students from all three Black Studies degree courses at Birmingham City Uni (@MYBCU) about their POVs of the course. The students featured are Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte. The courses are pretty much all female students currently. 
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS

Barbudans battle for island in London court
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-news/2023/11/08/barbudans-battle-for-island-in-london-court/

Gov’t to finance new prison itself – Chang
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20200608/govt-finance-new-prison-itself-chang

‘Black face of white supremacy’
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/

Voice Online: Britain's Favourite Black Newspaper
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/

Proudjamaicans (reel about neo-colonization of Jamaica's beaches)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxojVXwxFiF/

Biographies of the Justices
https://www.jcpc.uk/about/biographies-of-the-justices.html

David Cameron rules out slavery reparation during Jamaica visit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34401412
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GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS

Birmingham City University
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/

BLACK STUDIES (CRIMINAL JUSTICE) - BA (HONS)
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-in-criminal-justice-ba-hons-2024-25

BLACK STUDIES - BA (HONS)
https://bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ba-hons-2024-25

BLACK STUDIES - MA
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ma-2024-25
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Guest: Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte (Black Studies Students)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
By Kehinde Andrews

Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the MET police's nonsense claim that the use of the political term "coconut" is a hate crime following a MET tweet (since removed) in the form of a protest poster of Rishi "Rish" Sunak and Cruella Vader-man. He argues that terms of political critique like "coconut" and "coon," which point out agents of White Supremacy especially if they are Black and Brown aren't racist terms and slurs. We must continue to defend our history, language, political critique, and ultimately our Black political thought.  
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In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dr Kadian Pow about her part-autobiographical book "Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness." It looks at how different aspects of love have shaped Kadian's Black feminine identity, from family lessons to romantic love to love of Blackness and community. Using anecdata from early life to her 30s, tracing themes of feminism. They also discuss her teaching Black Studies, her Black-owned business, respectability politics, and her transition from being a former born-again Christian. 

Her new book also part-inspired a mini summit event next Saturday, November 25th at Birmingham City University (BCU Curzon Building, B4 7BD) called "Black Women & Undoing Sexual Shame" (18+), organized by Black Ballad, event tickets are available here (For support: if you're a BCU student email Kadian.Pow@bcu.ac.uk and if you need help email support@blackballad.co.uk).
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Kadian is currently a lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies at Birmingham City University (BCU), where she teaches courses in both Sociology and Black Studies with Kehinde Andrews (and his former PhD student). Her interest includes Black feminism, intersectionality, TV and social media, the sociology of Black natural hair, sexuality, and queer studies. She's also the creator of Bourn Beautiful Naturals (BB Naturals), a Black-owned solution-based skincare company. 
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS

Kehinde's tweet response to MET investigation call out for person holding "coconut" poster (MET tweet has been removed)
https://twitter.com/kehinde_andrews/status/1723630406577029137

MIP tweet of poster
https://twitter.com/makeitplainorg/status/1723690666025230351
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GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS

Kadian's Link Tree
https://linktr.ee/kadianpow

Kadian's Black-owned company creation: Bourn Beautiful Naturals (BB Naturals)
https://bournbeautifulnaturals.uk/

Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness (Black Studies)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Black-Female-Identity-Making/dp/1915271452

Mini Summit Black Ballad: Black Women & Undoing Sexual Shame - SAT NOV 25
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-women-undoing-sexual-shame-tickets-749380746987

Black Ballad (UK-based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of Black British women)
https://blackballad.co.uk/

Policing terms like House Negro insults Black political thought
https://make-it-plain.org/2021/02/19/policing-terms-like-house-negro-insults-black-political-thought/
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Guest: @luddite_in_training (IG) @kadianpow (T)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
By Kehinde Andrews

Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews rants about reparations washing, and the recent case in point of Lloyd's of London's "slavery" report; why he'd need to report himself under the new UK gov plans to criminalize dissent that also directly focuses on Muslims, which essentially conflates extremism with radicalism, and more on Israel-Palestine.
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In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dawn Butler Labour Member of Parliament (MP) about how she navigates work as a Black female MP. Since day she has managed to represent, talk the truth, and most importantly stayed Black while doing her job in parliament—one of the Whitest places—despite the advice when she first came into parliament of "not to be too Black." 

She's therefore an amazing example of what we need to see more of from politicians in electoral politics. In this interview, she offers examples, like THE coup ran against her when she ran for deputy speaker, of how she manages and balances the impact of engaging with the constant gendered and racial reminders that arise for a Black Woman in one of the UK's Whitest and highest-profile workplaces. 
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Dawn Butler a Labour Member of Parliament for Brent Central, London, the third Black woman to be elected an MP, the first ever to speak at the dispatch box and the first Black female chair of the women’s Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). She's the author of "A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change" (2023). She was named the "most promising feminist under 35" by New Statesman magazine, honored as MP of the year at the 2009 Women in Public Life Awards, and was named one of the 25 most influential women in the UK by Vogue in 2020.
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS

Lloyd’s of London slavery review fails to settle heated question of reparations
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/08/lloyds-of-london-slavery-review-fails-to-settle-heated-question-of-reparations

The transatlantic slave trade
https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/history/the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade

The materials are drawn from the collection of Lloyd’s the Insurance Market
https://underwritingsouls.org/

Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values?CMP=share_btn_tw
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GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS

Dawn's book "A Purposeful Life What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change"
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456329/a-purposeful-life-by-butler-dawn/9781911709329

Alison Hammond responds to complaint about her ‘Rolex’ on This Morning: ‘Sorry you felt uncomfortable’
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/alison-hammond-rolex-this-morning-b2436860.html

Dawn Butler Talks Honesty, Purpose & Surviving Cancer
https://blackballad.co.uk/people/dawn-butler-a-purposeful-life?listIds=62948f6b18dc9806e42955cf

Teachers presenting White privilege as fact are breaking the law, warns minister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIa4bvXjDhA
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Guest: @dawnbutlerbrent (IG + T)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
By Kehinde Andrews

Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the "end" of Black Employment Month aka Black History Month, King Charles' unapologetically White speech during a recent state visit to Kenya, what is and isn't authentic reparatory justice, and the ongoing White psychosis of the British royal family.
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In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Nels Abbey. They discuss amongst many tings, his formative years in foster care and boarding school and his working years from asset banker to media exec. They also discuss, topical news including the current UK's most diverse yet most far-right government in history, Nel's new book out next year The Hip Hop MBA uses hip hop as a model for how we think about economics. his new event Uppity a monthly forum for discussing Black issues in Black communities with the first event The Trial of Dominique Samuels happening earlier this week at The Africa Centre. 
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Nels Abbey is a former asset management banker turned public intellectual, medical executive, broadcaster, satirist, author of "Think Like A White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black" (2019) and The Hip Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism from Rap’s Moguls (out spring 2024) and most recently founder of "Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee."
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Guest: @nelsabbey (IG + T)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
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King Charles stops short of apology for ‘abhorrent’ colonial violence in Kenya
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/king-charles-stops-short-of-apology-for-british-colonial-violence-kenya

Nels Abbey's Guardian Column
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nelson-abbey

Boarding Schools: The System That Rules Britain - BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcl1

UK to compensate Kenya's Mau Mau torture victims
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/uk-compensate-kenya-mau-mau-torture

‘Black face of white supremacy'’
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/

Canongate scoops banker-turned-writer Abbey's hip hop business 'bible'
https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/canongate-scoops-banker-turned-writer-abbeys-hip-hop-business-bible

The Hip-Hop MBA: What the Empires, Moguls, and Business of Rap Can Teach the World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60741847-the-hip-hop-mba

Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee
https://www.instagram.com/uppityhq/
Why It’s Okay to Change (I Did After Doing Psychedelics)
https://medium.com/@dominiquetsamuels/how-psychedelics-changed-and-destroyed-my-life-768f10b7640d
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World

Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the theme of Black Employment Month AKA Black History Month "Saluting Our Sisters," the past and present overlooking of Black Women, and the importance of the Black feminist standpoint in understanding the world better. For example, why we mobilize more around the public spectacle of anti-Black violence against predominantly Black men that leads to liberal reforms and why we need to also look at the private violence that predominantly affects Black women, such as deaths in childbirth. Focussing on both will lead to more radical solutions.
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In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Patricia Hill Collins about her new book “Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence,” the appropriation of intersectionality and what it is and isn’t, navigating her career in academia, the “public intellectual” and what it will take for Black people to be free.

Patricia Hill Collins is a distinguished US professor emerita of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of numerous award-winning books including her best-known and fundamental title "Black Feminist Thought" (originally published in 1990) and more (see below). She was the first ever elected Black female to be president of the American Sociological Association (ASA). This week Patricia was the winner of the very prestigious Berggruen Philosophy Prize, the first Black person to win this prize. 
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Black women four times more likely to die in childbirth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59248345

More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england

Feminist Icon Patricia Hill Collins Becomes First Black Winner Of $1 Million Berggruen Prize
https://www.essence.com/news/patricia-hill-collins-berggruen-prize/

Black Feminist Thought Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
https://www.routledge.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Knowledge-Consciousness-and-the-Politics-of-Empowerment/Collins/p/book/9780415964722

Intersectionality, 2nd Edition (General book)
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=intersectionality-2nd-edition--9781509539673

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
https://www.dukeupress.edu/intersectionality-as-critical-social-theory

Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence (Intersectionalities original intent)
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=lethal-intersections-race-gender-and-violence--9781509553150

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
https://markingtimeart.com/

Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
https://academic.oup.com/socpro/article/33/6/s14/1610242

Set the World on Fire Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224597/set-the-world-on-fire/

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement A Radical Democratic Vision
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856161/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement/

The Revolution Has Come Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-has-come
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Guest: Patricia Hill Collins
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
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KEHINDE ANDREWS EVENTS

Unmasking Brilliance: Black British Voices in Media w/
28th October Black British Book Festival, Southbank Centre 
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/black-british-book-festival

THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS

Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the 14-year-old Black male being held in a headlock and tasered to the ground by a UK police officer and the problem with Black Employment Month aka Black History Month. 
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In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Abdul Alkalimat, Black Studies OG and professor emeritus of African American Studies about what is Black studies, his books “The History of Black Studies” (2021) and “The Future of Black Studies” (2022) the battle for Black Studies in the US and the UK, and Black students today and our future. 

Abdul Alkalimat (PhD University of Chicago) is one of the founders of the Black Studies movement, involved in the Black Radical Congress and Institute for the Black World, and a professor emeritus (retired) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He was one of three founders of the Organisation of Black American Culture (OBAC) and served as its first chairperson.
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Outcry as shocking footage shows police tasering 14-year-old boy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-taser-black-teenager-birmingham-b2431070.html

The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344225/the-history-of-black-studies/

The Future of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347004/the-future-of-black-studies/

Black Studies
www.blackstudies.net
https://web.archive.org/web/20230330200305/http://blackstudies.net/

Abdul Alkalimat
https://alkalimat.org/
The Ideology of Black Social Science 
https://alkalimat.org/426%20ALKALIMAT%20and%20McWORTER%20-%201969%20-%20THE%20IDEOLOGY%20OF%20BLACK%20SOCIAL%20SCIENCE.pdf/

The Death of White Sociology by Joyce Ladner
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Guest: Abdul Alkalimat
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS

More Book Tour Dates (this month): 
https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews

25th October London School of Economics, Sheikh Zayed Theatre
28th October Black British Book Festival, Southbank Centre 

Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476