The Nerdy Professor Podcast

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  1. Sep 23

    The Memory of Afro-Cuba | Ep. 28

    What's up yall! On todays episode we are going to dig in the vault a little bit and check out the anime The Big O and look into the history of Afro Cuba. Don't forget to drop a comment to let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com. Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com Music Creds In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US  Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Covert Affair - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100795 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Back on Track - Latinesque by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100426 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Some Sources Adriana Chira,Manuel BarciaThe Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. xii + 234 pp. (Cloth US$42.50), New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe WestIndische Gids, Volume 88, Issues 1–2, 2014, ⁠https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-08801021⁠. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1382237314000877)Gott, Richard (2005). Cuba : a new history. Internet Archive. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11114-9. Knight, Franklin W. “Origins of Wealth and the Sugar Revolution in Cuba, 1750-1850.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 57, no. 2 (1977): 231–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/2513773. Schneider, E. (2016). [Review of the book The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, by Michele Reid-Vazquez]. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 13(3), 252-254. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/636918.  https://www.history.com/articles/cuban-revolution https://guides.loc.gov/world-of-1898/antonio-maceo

  2. Sep 9

    Through the Labyrinth of Black Mexican History | Ep. 27

    What's up y'all! Today's episode will focus on Afro- Mexican history through the lens of the anime Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic . Don't forget to drop a comment! Support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com . Thank you ! Some sources Saldívar, Emiko, Erika Arenas, and Cecile Binmoeller. 2024. “Unpacking the ‘Fluidity’ of Mestizaje: How Anti-Indigenous and Anti-Black Racism Determine Social Relations and Economic Destinations of Mestizos.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 47 (11): 2368–87. doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2329343. David M. Davidson; Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519-1650. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 1966; 46 (3): 235–253. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-46.3.235 https://www.nps.gov/people/juargarrido.htm Gerhard, Peter. “A Black Conquistador in Mexico.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 58, no. 3 (1978): 451–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/2513959. Music Creds In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  3. Aug 26

    Denial Is a River in Amestris | Dominican Identity and the DR’s Racial History | Ep. 26

    What's up y'all! This episode will take a look at the Dominican Republic's racial history and the best starter anime Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com. Some Sources https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Dominican-Republic https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-samana-americans/ https://blackpast.org/global-african-history/haitian-invasions-and-occupation-santo-domingo-1801-1844/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uogOXHBTsKI https://www.history.com/articles/rafael-trujillo Music Creds In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Three Sheets To The Wind by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  4. Aug 12

    Core Memory of the Western World | Ep. 25

    What's up y'all! On this episode we are going to take a look at some anime history and mix it with the Haitian revolution. Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com. Some Sources Extra History | The Haitian Revolution Complete James, C. L. R. 1989. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution.  Tyler D Parry, Charlton W Yingling, Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas, Past & Present, Volume 246, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 69–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020  Music Credits In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Long Dark by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Mighty Funky by FSM Team Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Worthy Rivals by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Surrounded by Hayden Folker | https://soundcloud.com/hayden-folker Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Peaceful Rain by Hayden Folker | https://soundcloud.com/hayden-folker Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

  5. Jul 29

    Iron Flower in the New World | Ep. 24

    What's up y'all! We are starting a new season and you know what that means! New places! This season we are going to check out some Black History in Latin America! For todays episode we're looking at the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans. Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com. Some Sources Dani Anthony , "Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice" , Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective July, 2015 https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice. Escobar Zelaya, Susana. 2021. “The Remains of Castas in Latin America”. Global Insight: A Journal of Critical Human Science and Culture 2 (October). https://doi.org/10.32855/globalinsight.2021.002. Mörner, Magnus. “The Spanish American Hacienda: A Survey of Recent Research and Debate.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 53, no. 2 (1973): 183–216. https://doi.org/10.2307/2512251. Yeager, Timothy J. “Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown’s Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America.” The Journal of Economic History 55, no. 4 (1995): 842–59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123819. Rowe, John H. “The Inca Civil War and the Establishment of Spanish Power in Peru.” Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology, no. 28 (2006): 1–9. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27977824. Music Credits -In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US -Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  6. Jul 15

    Resonance on the Ninth Floor | Ep. 23

    What's up y'all! This episode will take a look at some key moments during the Black Power Movement in Canada through the lens of thriller anime Terror in Resonance. Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com Some Sources https://socialistproject.ca/2019/01/fifty-years-ago-birth-of-black-power-in-canada/ Harris, Christopher. “Canadian Black Power, Organic Intellectuals, and the War of Position in Toronto, 1967–1975.” The CLR James Journal 20, no. 1/2 (2014): 139–58. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26752065. https://www.nfb.ca/film/ninth_floor/ Music Creds -Spring by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/   -In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US -Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  7. Jul 1

    The Fight Against Canada's Devils | Ep. 22

    What's up yall ! On today's episode we are looking at Black Canada's fight for equality and the anime Chainsaw Man. Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com Some Sources -Deachman, Bruce. “15 Canadian Stories: Viola Desmond, Reluctant Social Activist.” ottawacitizen , September 1, 2017. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/15-canadian-stories-viola-desmond-reluctant-social-activist. -Bingham, Russell. "Viola Desmond." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published January 27, 2013; Last Edited April 16, 2021.-Mackenzie, Shelagh . Remember Africville . National Film Board of Canada, 1991. https://www.nfb.ca/film/remember-africville/. -Nelson, Jennifer J. “The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating and Remembering the Urban ‘Slum.’” Canadian journal of law and society 15, no. 2 (2000): 163–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006402. Music Creds - Wishful Thinking by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US - The Long Dark by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ -In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US -Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  8. 06/11/2025

    Truth Through Chaos | Ep. 21

    What's up y'all! I have a long one for you today. We are going to jump some timelines and discuss Black activism in the early 1900s and look into the anime Baccano! Drop a comment and let me know what you would like to hear about next. If you would like to support the podcast check out https://www.thenerdyprofessor.com Some Sources (I have way more sources these are just the top few) • African Canadian Legal Clinic. 2012. (Lawson, Smith, Chen, Parson, & Scott, 2002; Smith & Lawson, 2002). • Bertley, J. 1982. The role of the black community in educating blacks in montreal, from 1910 to 1940, with special reference to reverend dr. charles humphrey este (Order No. MK58154). ProQuest 303248151 • "Black Train Porters." Coquitlam Heritage Society, https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/our-blog/black-train-porters. • "Black Women Changemakers of the 19th and 20th Centuries." Canadian Museum of History. https://www.historymuseum.ca/teachers-zone/black-women-changemakers-of-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/creating-a-positive-black-identity/adeline-chancy • Boyd, Nancy. “Madness, Women, and the State: Reflections on a Canadian Feminist Perspective.” Canadian Social Work Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (2017). • Supreme Court of Canada, “Christie v. The York Corporation, [1940] S.C.R. 139,” Exhibits, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/2715. • Este, David, Christa Sato, and Darcy McKenna. "The Coloured Women’s Club of Montreal, 1902-1940 African-Canadian Women Confronting Anti-Black Racism." Canadian Social Work Review 34, no. 1 (2017). https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cswr/2017-v34-n1-cswr03182/1040996ar/ Music Credits In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Decisive Hours by FSCM Productions | https://fscmproductions.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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