Today’s conversation is with andré carrington, who teaches in the Department of English at University of California, Riverside. He has published extensively on literature and the speculative arts and is the author of two books, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (2016) and Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination (2026), as well as editor of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories (2025). In this conversation, we discuss the expansiveness of the Black Studies imagination, the place of popular and graphic arts in Black study, and the terms of thinking and teaching Black life in times of political crisis.
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The Black Studies Podcast (2024-present) is a series of conversations discussing the past and future of the field. In conversation with professors, students, activists, writers, and artists, we explore the meaning of Black Studies and the implications of its critical methods.
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