Left of Black S2:E22 | March 5, 2012
Black Women’s Hair Matters and Black Queer Erotics in Cuba
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by actress and playwright Chaunesti Webb, creator and director of the new play I Love My Hair When It's Good: & Then Again When It Looks Defiant and Impressive. Neal and Webb discuss the relationship that Black women have with their hair and the broader cultural meanings associated with Black women’s hair. Webb also talks about her play, which opens at the Manbites Dog Theaterin Durham, North Carolina on March 8th.
Later, Neal is also joined in-studio by Yale University anthropologist Jafari Sinclaire Allen. Neal talks with Allen about his new book ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba (Duke University Press). Neal and Allen also discuss the political and cultural significance of Cuba to Blacks in the United States and the power of the Erotic, per the work of the late Audre Lorde.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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