The Past and Future of Black Studies

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This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, 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.

In this episode, Ashley Newby hosts Jessica Marie Johnson from the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University for a discussion of the place of historical study, digital methods, and the complexity of gender and geography in the study of Black life.

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