At a Boston benefit to support encuentro 5, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad (here), and Sam Christiansen discussed the ramifications of the 2012 elections and "where do we go from here." Prashad is author of "Arab Spring, Libyan Winter," "A People's History of the Third World," and many other books on contemporary history.
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Selasa, 20 November 2012
Rabu, 12 September 2012
Vijay Prashad on Death of US Ambassador in Protest of Anti-Islam Film in Post-Gaddafi Libya
The U.S. ambassador to Libya has been killed along with three other embassy staff after protesters stormed a consular building denouncing an American-made film insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Ambassador Christopher Stevens is reportedly the first U.S. envoy to be killed abroad in more than two decades. We speak to Vijay Prashad, professor at Trinity College and author of "Arab Spring, Libyan Winter."
Kamis, 23 Agustus 2012
Vijay Prashad Asseses The Occupy Movement and the Presidential Election
In conversation with Newsclick, Vijay Prashad analyzes the American Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party movement.
Rabu, 18 Juli 2012
"New World Under the New Moon: Mainstreaming The Maroon"
Vijay Prashad, Trinity College speaking at the Common Sense Convois, about the subject of "New World Under the New Moon: Mainstreaming The Maroon". The discussion took place on Thursday March 22, 2012 at Plum Mitan, Manzanilla, Trinidad & Tobago and was held in collaboration with the Manatee Conservation Trust.
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of fourteen books. Prashad is a well-known commentator on world affairs, writing in many journals on and off the web.
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of fourteen books. Prashad is a well-known commentator on world affairs, writing in many journals on and off the web.
Minggu, 24 Juni 2012
History Book Review: Arab Spring, Libyan Winter by Vijay Prashad
This is the summary of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter by Vijay Prashad.
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History, Professor and Director of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is the author of a number of books, including Karma of Brown Folk (Village Voice, one of the top 25 books of the year, 2001), Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting (Village Voice, one of the top 25 books of the year, 2002), and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (winner of the 2009 Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize). He writes regularly for Frontline (India) and Counterpunch (USA), and edits Bol (Pakistan) and is a contributing editor at Himal (Nepal).
Selasa, 01 Mei 2012
Vijay Prashad on Global Financial Speculation and the Price of Food
TheRealNews:
Vijay Prashad: Developed countries fight to stop UNCTAD linking financial speculation to reducing poverty.
Sabtu, 31 Desember 2011
The Best of 'Left of Black" 2011
Left of Black, the weekly video webcast that I host in conjunction with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, is now in it’s second season. The show is on holiday hiatus until January 9th, when we will broadcast a new episode featuring Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude and UCLA Sociologist Mingon Moore. Until then, here’s a collection of some of our best episodes from 2011.
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Left of Black S1:E19
w/ Hank Willis Thomas
January 31, 2011
In this special episode of Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Thomas’ works include Winter in America (2008), Branded(2008), ReBranded (2008), Black is Beautiful (2009), Fair Warning (2010) and UnBranded (2010) and he is the author of Pitch Blackness (2008). Neal and Thomas engage in a wide ranging conversation about Black masculinity, urban violence, the export of Black popular culture and Michael Jackson as well as a walk-thru of Thomas’ Hope Exhibition at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Left of Black S1:E23
w/Shana Tucker
February 21, 2011
February 21, 2011
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal welcomes independent artist and cellist Shana Tuckerinto the Left of Black studio at the John Hope Franklin Center. Tucker and Neal discuss her new fan-financed CD SHiNE and a style of music that Tucker calls “Chamber Soul.”
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Left of Black Episode S1:E24
w/Pierre & Jamyla Bennu & Rebecca Walker
March 7, 2011
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by filmmaker and conceptual artist Pierre Bennu and his partner and natural beauty care producer Jamyla Bennu. Later writer Rebecca Walker joins Neal, also via Skype, from her home in Hawaii.
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Left of Black S1:E28
w/ Rosa Clemente and 9th Wonder
March 21, 2011
w/ Rosa Clemente and 9th Wonder
March 21, 2011
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Rosa Clemente (via Skype), the 2008 Green Party Vice-Presidential candidate in a conversation about the historic Green Party ticket in 2008, contemporary Black activism and Hip-Hop. Later Neal is joined in-studio by Grammy Award winning producer, label head and educator 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit).
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Left of Black S1:E31
w/ Karla FC Holloway
April 25, 2011
w/ Karla FC Holloway
April 25, 2011
Left of Black host and Duke UniversityProfessor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by fellow Duke University Professor Karla FC Holloway, author the new book Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics (Duke University Press). Neal and Holloway discuss medical racism, the Tuskegee experiments and the late Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X.
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Left of Black S1:E32
w/ Aishah Shahidah Simmons & Zaheer Ali
May 2, 2011
Left of Blackhost and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons in a discussion of sexual violence in Black communities, homophobia, and popular culture controversies surrounding Ashley Judd, Kobe Bryant and DJ Mister Cee. Later Neal talks with historian Zaheer Ali, one of the lead researchers on the late Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Re-invention.
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Left of Black S2:E4
w/ Julie Dash & Lizz Wright
October 3, 2011
w/ Julie Dash & Lizz Wright
October 3, 2011
Filmmaker Julie Dash joins host and Duke UniversityProfessor Mark Anthony Neal on Left of Black. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the release of Dash’s ground-breaking film Daughters of the Dust which was the first feature by an African-American woman to gain national theatrical release. The film draws on Dash’s South Carolina heritage and focuses on three generations of women with roots in the Sea Islands and Gullah culture. Dash discusses how she became a filmmaker and the challenges she faced along the way. Dash also reveals her surprising view of filmmaker Tyler Perry.
In the second segment, musical artist and vocalist Lizz Wrightjoins Neal. The Georgia born singer discusses how her family’s tradition in storytelling inspired her career as a vocalist. Wright, whose music is difficult to place in one genre, talks about incorporating religion into her music as well. Wright also identifies the musicians who influenced her and the inspiration her album artwork. Finally Wright explains how she’s maintained control of her music. Wright has released four full-length recordings, including the recent Fellowship.
In the second segment, musical artist and vocalist Lizz Wrightjoins Neal. The Georgia born singer discusses how her family’s tradition in storytelling inspired her career as a vocalist. Wright, whose music is difficult to place in one genre, talks about incorporating religion into her music as well. Wright also identifies the musicians who influenced her and the inspiration her album artwork. Finally Wright explains how she’s maintained control of her music. Wright has released four full-length recordings, including the recent Fellowship.
Left of Black S2:E6
w/ Dr. Kenneth Montague and Kellie Jones
October 17, 2011
w/ Dr. Kenneth Montague and Kellie Jones
October 17, 2011
Dr. Kenneth Montague, a Toronto-based dentist and the curator of Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, joins Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal at the Nasher Museum in Durham, Carolina. The Windsor, Ontario born Montague has collected contemporary art since the 1990s, and was influenced by African American culture from across the Detroit River. Neal and Montague discuss some of the featured artists in the collection including Jamel Shabazz, Carrie Mae Weems, Malick Sidibé, and James VanDerZee, and the importance of collecting Black Art.
Later in the episode, Neal is joined via Skype© by Columbia UniversityArt Historian Kellie Jones, author of the new book Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art. Neal and Jones discuss her famous parents, Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, and her work as curator of the new exhibit, Now Dig this! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Later in the episode, Neal is joined via Skype© by Columbia UniversityArt Historian Kellie Jones, author of the new book Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art. Neal and Jones discuss her famous parents, Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, and her work as curator of the new exhibit, Now Dig this! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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Left of Black S2:E9
w/ Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah
November 7, 2011
w/ Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah
November 7, 2011
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Nealis joined via Skype© by Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of the recent award winning book The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (The New Press, paperback 2008). Neal and Prashad, discuss the impact of the #Occupy Movement and what role Left academics and intellectuals have to play in the movement.
Later Neal is joined by Leyla Farah, author of Black Gifted and Gay which profiles the lives and accomplishments of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community’s living icons—who just happen to be of African descent. Farah is a Founding Partner at Cause+Effect, a PR firm focused exclusively on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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Left of Black S2:E13
“Acting White” in the “Post-Black” Era
w/ Professor Karolyn Tyson and Ytasha Womack
December 5, 2011
Left of Blackhost and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Professor Karolyn Tyson, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White After Brown(Oxford University Press). Neal and Tyson discuss the prevalence of the “Acting White” myth as it relates to Black high school students and how the myth obscures the more insidious practice of “Racialized Tracking” in Public Education.
Later Neal is joined via Skype© by Ytasha Womack, journalist and author of Post-Black: How a Generation is Redefining African American Identity (Lawrence Hill Books). Neal and Womack discuss the concept of “Post-Black” and what impact it has had on identity formation among the so-called “Post-Black” generation.
Rabu, 07 Desember 2011
Rebirth of a Nation: Race and Gender Politics In Today’s Media
Last month, the Black Youth Project hosted a dynamic and fascinating panel discussion, Rebirth of a Nation: Race and Gender Politics In Today’s Media:
Featuring Bakari Kitwana, Vijay Prashad, Rosa Clemente, Mark Anthony Neal, Joan Morgan and Che “Rhymefest” Smith), the conversation was inspiring, enlightening and robust, tackling such controversial topics as the Obama Presidency, The Occupy Movement, gender politics, our insidious 24-hour news cycle, and Hip Hop as a tool for social change.
Rebirth of a Nation was sponsored by The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the Organization of Black Students at the University of Chicago, The Black Youth Project, and Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip Hop.
Rabu, 16 November 2011
Vijay Prashad: Hip Hop Occupies
It's Politics Time Again
Hip Hop Occupies
For Heavy D, 1967-2011.
I. We the 99.
“Nobody got more welfare than Wall Street /Hundreds of billions after operating falsely/And nobody went to prison that’s where you lost me /But my home, my job, and my life is what it cost me.”– Jasiri X, Occupy (We the 99).
The students at UCONN invited Jasiri X to headline their “Political Awareness Rally” on November 4. Jasiri is a rapper from Pittsburg, PA., who burst on the scene with his powerful, political music, such as Free the Jena 6, What if the Tea Party Was Black, I Am Troy Davis and most recently Occupy (We the 99). Shortly before he was to come to the event, Jasiri received an email from the Chief Financial Officer of the Undergraduate Student Government at UCONN. The student wrote that Jasiri could perform most of his songs (“they all promote social justice and ending racism”), but the Student Government could not allow him to perform songs “that contain obvious political statements (such as Occupy – We the 99) – as referring to the Occupy movement.”
I asked Jasiri what he made of this curious distinction between his other work and the Occupy song. “I do political songs,” he said. “How can they say Occupy is a political song and not I Am Troy Davis?” At the event, Jasiri followed Ken Krayeske, who is running for U. S. Congress on the Green Party Ticket. Krayeske made his name through an interview with UCONN’s star basketball coach (he asked Jim Calhoun if he’d give back some of his millions as austerity struck the campus, and Calhoun barked, “Not a dime back”). At the Rally, Krayeske invoked Occupy. Jasiri recalls looking out at the students and thinking, “they have got to hear the song.” He went for it despite being warned that if he did the song he might not get paid.
Later Jasiri wrote, “At some point in this movement all of us are going to have to make sacrifices, if we truly want to see real change. The 1% control the 99% with promises of money, access, and comfort; we have to put our own souls above all three.”
II. Contagious Struggles.
When I asked Toni Blackman, a rapper with the Freestyle Union, what she thought of the Occupy dynamic, she said that it brought her “a sense of relief. I exhaled and thought ‘finally.’ I believe the energy will be contagious.” “Hip Hop is inching closer and closer to the Occupy movement. Soon singing about your riches and your bitches will be less and less acceptable. The Occupy movement has agitated the stagnant air just enough for artists who felt powerless to begin acknowledging their power again.”
It is not just the artists. Nor is the contagion going in one direction.
Read the Full Essay @ CounterPunch
I asked Jasiri what he made of this curious distinction between his other work and the Occupy song. “I do political songs,” he said. “How can they say Occupy is a political song and not I Am Troy Davis?” At the event, Jasiri followed Ken Krayeske, who is running for U. S. Congress on the Green Party Ticket. Krayeske made his name through an interview with UCONN’s star basketball coach (he asked Jim Calhoun if he’d give back some of his millions as austerity struck the campus, and Calhoun barked, “Not a dime back”). At the Rally, Krayeske invoked Occupy. Jasiri recalls looking out at the students and thinking, “they have got to hear the song.” He went for it despite being warned that if he did the song he might not get paid.
Later Jasiri wrote, “At some point in this movement all of us are going to have to make sacrifices, if we truly want to see real change. The 1% control the 99% with promises of money, access, and comfort; we have to put our own souls above all three.”
II. Contagious Struggles.
When I asked Toni Blackman, a rapper with the Freestyle Union, what she thought of the Occupy dynamic, she said that it brought her “a sense of relief. I exhaled and thought ‘finally.’ I believe the energy will be contagious.” “Hip Hop is inching closer and closer to the Occupy movement. Soon singing about your riches and your bitches will be less and less acceptable. The Occupy movement has agitated the stagnant air just enough for artists who felt powerless to begin acknowledging their power again.”
It is not just the artists. Nor is the contagion going in one direction.
Read the Full Essay @ CounterPunch
9th Wonder & Mark Anthony Neal at Harvard's Hip-Hop Archive | November 17 & 18
Hiphop Workout Session - Author Meets The Critics:
That's The Joint! 2nd Edition
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Panel 4pm - 6pm
Reception at 6pm - 7pm
The Hiphop Archive,
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute,
Harvard University
104 Mt Auburn St, 2R, Cambridge MA
Murray Forman (Northeastern) and Mark Anthony Neal (Duke), editors of That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd edition)
Participants Nicole Hodges Persley (Kansas), Vijay Prashad (Trinity), Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. (Penn), and Joycelyn Wilson (Du Bois Institute)
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Screening of The Wonder Year (directed by Kenneth Price)
Talk and Film Screening with Music Producer 9th Wonder
Friday, November 18, 2011
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The Hiphop Archive,
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute,
Harvard University
104 Mt Auburn St, 2R, Cambridge MA
Senin, 07 November 2011
Left of Black S2:E9 with Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah
Left of Black S2:E9
w/ Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah
November 7, 2011
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of the recent award winning book The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (The New Press, paperback 2008). Neal and Prashad, discuss the impact of the #Occupy Movement and what role Left academics and intellectuals have to play in the movement.
Later Neal is joined by Leyla Farah, author of Black Gifted and Gay which profiles the lives and accomplishments of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community’s living icons—who just happen to be of African descent. Farah is a Founding Partner at Cause+Effect, a PR firm focused exclusively on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for download @ iTunes U:
Minggu, 06 November 2011
November 7th ‘Left of Black’ Examines the #Occupy Movement
November 7th ‘Left of Black’ Examines the #Occupy Movement
Host and Duke UniversityProfessor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of the recent award winning book The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (The New Press, paperback 2008). Neal and Prashad, discuss the impact of the #Occupy Movement and what role Left academics and intellectuals have to play in the movement.
Later Neal is joined by Leyla Farah, author of Black Gifted and Gay which profiles the lives and accomplishments of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community’s living icons—who just happen to be of African descent. Farah is a Founding Partner at Cause+Effect, a PR firm focused exclusively on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on Duke's Ustream channel: ustream.tv/dukeuniversity. 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 Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.
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Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack
Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan
Follow Vijay Prasad: @VijayPrashad
Follow Leyla Farah: @LDFarah
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Selasa, 01 November 2011
Rebirth of a Nation: Race & Gender Politics in Media | University of Chicago
Rebirth of a Nation: Race & Gender Politics in Media
Saturday, November 5, 2011 12:00 pm
1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL
This interactive event includes a panel of scholars, activists and artists in discussion with the audience about the politics of media representations of race and gender in this current period, which has been characterized by some as post-race and post-feminist. We will dissect contemporary moments in popular culture and political debates where race, gender, class and identity come center stage. Films like The Help, reality television shows like Basketball Wives, and hot button political issues such as immigration, Islamophobia, and the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street campaign lead the list. Panelists: Rosa Clemente, Bakari Kitwana (moderator), Joan Morgan, Mark Anthony Neal, Vijay Prashad, and Che "Rhymefest" Smith.
Co-presented with the Black Youth Project; the Organization of Black Students at U of C; and Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip Hop
773-702-8063
Senin, 19 September 2011
Joan Morgan: "Black Women's Voices in Film" [Video]
From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image In The American Mind
Columbia College (Chicago) | April 26, 2011.
Panelists:
Mark Anthony Neal, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Joan Morgan Vijay Prashad and John Jennings
Moderator: Bakari Kitwana
Vijay Prashad: "How Do You Make Art for People for Whom There's No Future?" [Video]
From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image In The American Mind
Columbia College (Chicago) | April 26, 2011
Panelists:
Mark Anthony Neal, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Joan Morgan Vijay Prashad and John Jennings
Rabu, 01 Juni 2011
Rap Sessions: From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Digital Highlight Reel
For the 5th year the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in The Arts and Media at Columbia College and Rap Sessions co-presented a Community Dialogue. The powerful 'townhall meeting,' created and moderated by award-winning journalist, activist, political analyst and Institute Fellow Bakari Kitwana explored contemporary moments in popular culture and political debates where race, image and identity were center stage.
The program featured Elizabeth Méndez Berry (journalist and author, "The Obama Generation, Revisited," featured in The Nation), John Jennings (SUNY Buffalo; co-author, Black Comix: African American Independent Comix and Culture), Joan Morgan (journalist, culture critic, and author, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost), Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University; author, New Black Man), and Vijay Prashad (Trinity College; author, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World).
This highlight reel presents some of the program's prominent moments.
Selasa, 24 Mei 2011
Vijay Prashad, Author The Darker Nations on PressTV
The Autograph | PressTV
A 25 min weekly interview with academics, authors, politicians and dignitaries encompassing a whole range of different topics from cultural to highly political issues featuring Vijay Prashad of Trinity College and author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (The New Press, paperback 2008).
Sabtu, 07 Mei 2011
From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image in the American Mind
From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image in the American Mind
For the past five years, the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media has partnered with Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues to bring together a distinguished panel of scholars, journalists, and activists for a townhall-style meeting addressing important issues in our communities. Rap Sessions is led by critically acclaimed journalist, activist, political analyst, and Institute Fellow, Bakari Kitwana.
This year's panel explores contemporary moments in popular culture and political debates where race, image, and identity have taken center stage. Recent films like "Precious," "For Colored Girls," and TV shows like "The Wire" and "Treme," as well as current political issues such as immigration, are among the topics addressed by this panel.
Panelists include: Elizabeth Méndez Berry, journalist (The Nation, Washington Post) and author of The Obama Generation, Revisited; John Jennings, professor of visual studies, SUNY Buffalo, and co-author of Black Comix: African American Independent Comix and Culture; Joan Morgan, journalist, cultural critic, and author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost; Mark Anthony Neal, professor of Black popular culture at Duke University and author of New Black Man; Vijay Prashad, director of international studies at Trinity College and author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of The Third World.
Listen @ WBEZ
Selasa, 03 Mei 2011
Was Bin Laden’s Assassination Illegal? Bakari Kitwana Talks with Vijay Prashad
NewsOne’s Bakari Kitwana interviews Vijay Prashad about the implications of the recent killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Kitwana and Prashad discuss the American public’s euphoria surrounding this news and what this death means for the war in Afghanistan, and the future of America’s enemies—from Al Qaeda to the Taliban.
They also talk about the meaning of Bin Laden’s demise to the 2012 presidential race. Says Prashad, “Forget Obama. Forget 2012. What are the long-term implications for American power and authority in a world where others are trying to build up international law as a counter to cowboy-ism?”
Prashad also shares insight on the way he sees the death of Bin Laden already playing out in civil rights and human rights circles: “In 1981 Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, which disallows the US from pursuing targeted assassinations. Likewise, international law forbids this type of action. I’m very disturbed that there is no qualified discussion about the legality of this type of action. People on the liberal to progressive side seem to have lost their bearings and are no longer able to be serious when it comes to the question of utilizing armed force overseas.”
Vijay Prashad is professor and director of International Studies at Trinity College. He is the author eleven books, including his most recent The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World.
Bakari Kitwana is CEO of Rap Sessions, Editor at Large of Newsone.com and author of the forthcoming Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era. (Third World Press, 2011)
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Minggu, 24 April 2011
Rap Sessions Community Dialogue From Precious II For Colored Girls @ Columbia College | April 26, 2011
Rap Sessions |
Community Dialogue From Precious II For Colored Girls:
Community Dialogue From Precious II For Colored Girls:
The Black Image in the American Mind
Columbia College
Tuesday, April 26th
6 p.m. Reception / 6:30 p.m. Program
Conaway Center | 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor
This event is free and open to the public.
For the fifth year, the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media partners with Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues to bring a distinguished panel of scholars, journalists, and activists for a townhall-style meeting addressing important issues in our communities. Rap Sessions is led by critically-acclaimed journalist, activist, political analyst, and Institute Fellow, Bakari Kitwana.
This year’s panel explores contemporary moments in popular culture and political debates where race, image and identity come center stage. Recent films like Precious and For Colored Girls, and TV shows like The Wire and Treme, as well as current political issues such as immigration and others, are among the hot button issues to be addressed in this context.
Featuring:
- Elizabeth Méndez Berry (journalist and author of The Obama Generation, Revisited, featured in The Nation)
- John Jennings (Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo, and co-author of Black Comix: African American Independent Comix and Culture)
- Joan Morgan (journalist, cultural critic, and author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost)
- Mark Anthony Neal (Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University, and author of New Black Man)
- Vijay Prashad (Director of International Studies at Trinity College, and author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of The Third World)
Moderated by Bakari Kitwana, journalist, activist, political analyst, and Institute Fellow.
This program is co-presented by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, and Rap Sessions. It is sponsored in part by the Leadership Donors of the Institute; Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; Office of Multicultural Affairs; and Critical Encounters: Image & Implication.
For more information, email institutewomengender@colum.edu or call 312.369.8829.
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