In Conversation Michaela Angela Davis and Melissa Harris-Perry

Brooklyn Museum 

Michaela Angela Davis, writer, image activist, and creator of MAD Free, a multi-platform community conversation project, speaks with Melissa Harris-Perry, professor, MSNBC political commentator, and author of the new book Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. The two will discuss the persistent and detrimental stereotypes that afflict black women in the political arena and contribute to policies allowing their unfair treatment. This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum Thursday, February 16, 2012.

Left of Black S2:E18 | Thinking While Black: Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill

Left of Black S2:E18 | February 6, 2012

Thinking While Black with Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris Perry, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press). Perry discusses the “politics” of Black women and what she terms a “mis-recognition” of Black women as citizens.  Neal and Harris Perry contemplate the recent fascination with Black women’s “unmarriagability” and her soon to be launched weekend news show on MSNBC.

Later, Neal is joined via Skype© by Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of Education at the Teachers Collegeof Columbia University.  Hill is co-author, with celebrated political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal,  of the new book  The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations of Black Life in America.  Neal and Hill discuss the importance of black independent publishing, of communicating to broader publics beyond the Academy.  Lastly, Hill talks about the importance young people engaging Abu-Jamal’s incarceration in order to form a long-lasting movement against injustice.  

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Thinking While Black: Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill on the February 6th Left of Black

Thinking While Black: Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill on the February 6^thLeft of Black

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris Perry, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press). Harris Perry discusses the “politics” of Black women and what she terms a “mis-recognition” of Black women as citizens.  Neal and Harris Perry contemplate the recent fascination with Black women’s “unmarriagability” and her soon to be launched weekend news show on MSNBC.

Later, Neal is joined via Skype© by Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of Education at the Teachers College of Columbia University.  Hill is co-author, with celebrated political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal,  of the new book  The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations of Black Life in America.  Neal and Hill discuss the importance of black independent publishing, of communicating to broader publics beyond the Academy.  Lastly, Hill talks about the importance of young people engaging Abu-Jamal’s incarceration in order to form a long-lasting movement against injustice.  

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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive. 

Left of Blackis recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

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