Invisible Blackness with Adrian Younge

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Invisible Blackness with Adrian Younge

The Amazon Original podcast “Invisible Blackness with Adrian Younge” documents the development and evolution of racism in America. This miniseries analyzes the Black consciousness with new historical parallels to the future and the past. Join Adrian Younge weekly for reflection, accompanied by interviews of Black Filmmakers, Actors, Musicians, and Scholars. Listen to the songs that inspired Adrian Younge during the creation of the podcast, only on Amazon Music.

  1. 08/31/2021

    Beyond the Black Psyche

    Racism has fermented into an ever-evolving system that is difficult to recognize, without the right sensors.

    17 min

  2. 08/31/2021

    Say Somethin'

    The end of slavery marks the rise of a secularized Black American culture; a transition whereby secularization found the Black community creating its own social systems.

    15 min

  3. 08/31/2021

    The Cancer of America

    Within the first 150 years of Colonial America, it was clearly established that Blacks had no place in America, short of being the property of white colonists.

    25 min

  4. 08/31/2021

    Predetermined Prejudice

    This episode breaks down the etiology of institutionalized racism.

    34 min

  5. 08/24/2021

    Follow the Money, an Interview with Estelle

    In this episode, Adrian and Estelle discuss the African diaspora, Britain's National Front and Parallels between the racial justice movements in the UK and the United states.

    53 min

  6. 08/17/2021

    Understanding Cultural Comedy, an Interview with Russell Peters

    In this episode Adrian Younge and Russell Peters discuss the expression of cultural intelligence through comedy, the power of hiphop to inspire identity and the subtitles of understanding intention when applied to humor.

    36 min

  7. 08/10/2021

    My Great Great Grandfather was not an American Hero, an Interview with Caroline Randall Williams

    On this episode Adrian and Caroline discuss the romanticism of the South, American patriotism, and how she uses her "white" or ancestral privilege to denounce the evils of America's past.

    54 min

  8. 08/03/2021

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, an Interview with Brian Jackson

    In this episode, Adrian and Brian discuss Music as a tool for education, the nuances of segregation and how the struggle for civil rights informed revolutionary music in America.

    56 min
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The Amazon Original podcast “Invisible Blackness with Adrian Younge” documents the development and evolution of racism in America. This miniseries analyzes the Black consciousness with new historical parallels to the future and the past. Join Adrian Younge weekly for reflection, accompanied by interviews of Black Filmmakers, Actors, Musicians, and Scholars. Listen to the songs that inspired Adrian Younge during the creation of the podcast, only on Amazon Music.

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