Dr. Kenneth Montagu is a Toronto-based dentist, art collector, and the founding director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, a nonprofit arts organization. Since 1997, Montagu has promoted emerging and established artists via exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. His focus is African Canadian and diasporic art, which he also showcases in his privately owned Wedge collection. Montague's art activities include serving on the African Art Acquisition Committee at Tate Modern in London, UK, and the Photography Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is currently an AGO trustee and an advisor to their Department of Arts of Global Africa and the diaspora.

Liz Ikiriko is a Toronto-based Nigerian Canadian artist and curator with over 15 years of experience working with national institutions and artist-run organizations and was a member of the curatorial committee of the 13th edition of VAMACO Encounters, the African Biennial of Photography in Mali. She is currently curator at Gallery TPW and, along with Toleen Touq founded Waveform Projects, a collaboration that studies intimate and relational curatorial practice. She held positions as inaugural curator of collections and art and public space at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and curator of collections and contemporary art engagement at the Art Gallery of York University. She has published critical texts in Aperture, Public Journal, Sea Magazine, and Black Flash, among others.

Chapters

01:13 Reflecting on last week's episode and Stuart Hall's work

13:06 The Importance of Investigating and Celebrating Black Canadian Identity

19:25 Curating and Collecting as Celebrations of Black Canadian Identity

21:51 The Collaborative Process of Creating 'As We Rise'

44:40 The Power of Music to Inspire and Connect

Guests: Kenneth Montague and Liz Ikiriko

Hosts: Daniel McNeil and Toleen Touq

Executive Producer: Daniel McNeil

Producer: Toleen Touq

Associate Producer: Anna Jane McIntyre

Audio Engineer: Chancelor Maracle

Music: Marc Mac presents Visioneers, Ike's Mood I

Artwork: Anna Jane McIntyre

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Dr. Kenneth Montagu is a Toronto-based dentist, art collector, and the founding director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, a nonprofit arts organization. Since 1997, Montagu has promoted emerging and established artists via exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. His focus is African Canadian and diasporic art, which he also showcases in his privately owned Wedge collection. Montague's art activities include serving on the African Art Acquisition Committee at Tate Modern in London, UK, and the Photography Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is currently an AGO trustee and an advisor to their Department of Arts of Global Africa and the diaspora.

Liz Ikiriko is a Toronto-based Nigerian Canadian artist and curator with over 15 years of experience working with national institutions and artist-run organizations and was a member of the curatorial committee of the 13th edition of VAMACO Encounters, the African Biennial of Photography in Mali. She is currently curator at Gallery TPW and, along with Toleen Touq founded Waveform Projects, a collaboration that studies intimate and relational curatorial practice. She held positions as inaugural curator of collections and art and public space at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and curator of collections and contemporary art engagement at the Art Gallery of York University. She has published critical texts in Aperture, Public Journal, Sea Magazine, and Black Flash, among others.

Chapters

03:01 Kenneth Montague: From Dentist to Art Collector

04:39 Liz Ikiriko: A Nigerian Canadian Artist and Curator

07:33 The Impact of Representation in the Art World

10:53 Photography as a World of Possibility

19:31 The Continuous Support and Collaboration between Collectors and Curators

29:36 Exploring the Diversity of Black Canadian Identity

33:00 The Importance of Physical Space and Personal Expression

43:08 Cultural Connections and Family Heritage

53:12 Art as a Tool for Building Relationships and Supporting Artists

56:35 Towards a More Inclusive Understanding of Black Canadian Identity

Guests: Kenneth Montague and Liz Ikiriko

Hosts: Daniel McNeil and Toleen Touq

Executive Producer: Daniel McNeil

Producer: Toleen Touq

Associate Producer: Anna Jane McIntyre

Audio Engineer: Chancelor Maracle

Music: Marc Mac presents Visioneers, Ike's Mood I

Artwork: Anna Jane McIntyre

To find out more, please visit @blackstudiespodcast on Instagram

Next Time: A Global Sense of Blackness with Kenneth Montague and Liz Ikiriko

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Chapters

02:53 Encountering Each Other's Work

08:13 The Impact of Nomadic Massive

13:01 Nantali's Journey to Performance

18:19 Del's Musical Background

21:29 Convergence of Skills and Passions

23:52 Artists Who Move Rights and Liberties Forward

27:49 Music as Education for Blackness and Liberation

33:30 Challenges and Opportunities in Documenting Black Culture

43:01 Expressing Black Experiences and Black Love in Music

44:28 The Need for a Distinct Canadian Rap Form

52:51 Preserving and Documenting Black History and Culture

01:13:00 Hope for the Growing Recognition of Black Canadian Artistry

Guests: Nantali Indongo and Del Cowie

Hosts: Daniel McNeil and Anna Jane McIntyre

Executive Producer: Daniel McNeil

Producer: Toleen Touq

Associate Producer: Anna Jane McIntyre

Audio Engineer: Chancelor Maracle

Music: Marc Mac presents Visioneers, Ike's Mood I

Artwork: Anna Jane McIntyre

To find out more, please visit @blackstudiespodcast on Instagram

Next Time: “Not Just Salt and Pepper but Many Different Spices” with Kenneth Montague and Liz Ikiriko

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Chapters

01:21 Julie Crooks' Background and Work at the Art Gallery of Ontario

03:27 Gus Casely Hayford's Background and Work at V&A East

11:00 Fostering Resilience

21:41 The Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement

32:29 The Power of Younger Generations

33:00 Individual Contributions

35:54 Rediscovering Underrepresented Artists

37:52 Civic Duty and Public Service

38:49 Reflections on Historical Moments and Generational Shifts

42:44 The Power of Culture in Society

49:37 The 20th Century: Unfulfilled Promises

53:15 Musical Inspirations: Beyoncé and Steel Pulse

Guests: Gus Casely-Hayford & Julie Crooks

Hosts: Daniel McNeil and Anna Jane McIntyre

Executive Producer: Daniel McNeil

Producer: Toleen Touq

Associate Producer: Anna Jane McIntyre

Audio Engineer: Chancelor Maracle

Music: Marc Mac presents Visioneers, Ike's Mood I

Artwork: Anna Jane McIntyre

To find out more, please visit @blackstudiespodcast on Instagram

Next Time: Nantali Indongo and Del Cowie on Black Canadian Artistry

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Chapters

01:27 Archiving as a Practice of Love and Resilience

03:45 The Revolutionary Power of Curiosity

07:04 Political Friendship and Collective Action

13:00 Navigating Complex Historical and Political Contexts

45:42 Shredding Archives: Liberation from Control

47:09 The Shifting Nature of Archives

54:26 Solidarity as Joint Struggle

59:38 Challenging Dominant Narratives

01:13:23 The Power of Creative Works and Music

*The conversation was recorded on Zoom over 3 time zones. We experienced some challenges with the sound quality (especially from 25-28 minutes).

Guests: Sherene Seikaly and Ebony Coletu

Hosts: Daniel McNeil and Toleen Touq

Executive Producer: Daniel McNeil

Producer: Toleen Touq

Associate Producer: Anna Jane McIntyre

Audio Engineer: Chancelor Maracle

Music: Marc Mac presents Visioneers, Ike's Mood I

Artwork: Anna Jane McIntyre

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Next Time: Curatorial Dreams with Gus Casely-Hayford and Julie Crooks 

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Gavin “Gavsborg” Blair is co-founder of Equiknoxx Music, a Kingston-based production and performance collective, with Bobby Blackbird. With roots in Reggae, Hip Hop, Jazz, Dancehall & Ska, the group operates across multiple genres while staying Jamaican to the core. Equiknoxx has released music for Aidonia, Busy Signal, Beenie Man, Ky-Mani Marley, Krayzie Bone, Masicka, J.O.E, Shanique Marie among others. While collaborating with Illum Sphere, Swing Ting, Mark Ernestus, Poirier, Arcade Fire and The Dirty Projectors among others, Equiknoxx continues to be revered for sharing new Jamaican expressions with the world and “making dancehall weird again” (Pitchfork magazine). 

Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall is the Riddim Writer. She is a literary scholar, decolonial feminist, and cultural analyst with a creative practice that is nurtured by sound. As the Riddim Writer, she creates sound art and hosts the podcast “For Posterity” where she interviews Caribbean writers, musicians, visual artists, and inspiring citizens. As a Caribbean storytelling advocate, she has dubbed poetry and published non-fiction and fiction works. She is also co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine PREE: Caribbean Writing. With a commitment to opening-up access, her cultural analysis and critical scholarship have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, in non-academic outlets, and can be heard on the 2022 Carnegie Hall produced Afrofuturism podcast. She is currently completing her monograph “On the B-Side: Storytelling Meets Caribbean Futurism in Infinite Dub,” a critical exploration of word-sound-power, deep listening, environmental wisdom, and Caribbean identities. Dr. Semaj-Hall is the Caribbean literature and popular culture specialist in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica. 

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Dr Zélie Asava is a specialist in questions of race, gender, screen studies, and visual culture. She is the author of The Black Irish Onscreen and Mixed Race Cinemas, and co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema on black and ethnic minority representation. She sits on the Boards of Screen Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, the journal French Screen Studies, Catalyst International Film Festival and the arts magazine Unapologetic, and is a member of the European Commission’s ‘Capital of Culture’ panel of experts. 

With over 15 years of experience, Tambay A. Obenson has emerged as a trusted voice in African and diaspora cinema. He founded Shadow and Act in 2009, building what would become the leading online platform for Black film coverage with a global perspective, and spent four years at IndieWire as a Staff Writer. Currently, Tambay is building Akoroko, a new platform focused on mainstreaming coverage of and access to films telling African stories globally. 

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• Joshua Myer’s On Black Study 
• Jafar Panahi's No Bears
• Isaac Julien’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask 
• Ousmane Sembène’s Xala 
• Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel’s Arna’s Children 

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Grégory Pierrot is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is the author of Decolonize Hipsters (OR Books, 2021), The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA, 2019) and co-editor of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA, 2022) and Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke, 2013). He is also a co-host of the webseries Decolonize That!   

Anthony C. Alessandrini is a writer and public educator based in New York. He is the author of Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics; the editor of Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives; and the co-editor of “Resistance Everywhere”. He has also published a poetry chapbook, Children Imitating Cormorants. He teaches English at Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. He is also on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, a Co-Convener of the International Solidarity Action Research Network (ISARN), and an active member of the Palestine solidarity movement. 

Some of the work discussed in the first part of this wonderfully rich, stimulating, and wide-ranging conversation:  

• Sophia Azeb’s piece on the Pan-African Cultural Festival of 1969 in The Funambulist 
• Paul Gilroy’s Against Race 
• Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance, edited by H. L. T. Quan.  
• Alberto Toscano's "The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism"
• Grégory Pierrot’s Decolonize Hipsters  
• Roderick Ferguson’s We Demand: The University and Student Protests  
• Angela Davis’s Lectures on Liberation 
• Anthony C. Alessandrini, The Lived Experience of Social Construction and Decolonize Multiculturalism 
• Chelsea Stieber’s “John Brown Had a Sick Beard”  

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Anna Jane McIntyre is a British-Trinidadian-now-Canadian multidisciplinary artist who explores Architectures of Being & Breathing through non-compartmentalised-think-light-movement-heavy art forms like printmaking, kinetic sculpture, installation, gifs, costume making, to-do lists, storytelling, story-setting, bushcraft, inaccurate portraiture & dodgy $5 entrepreneurial street sale experiments.

Anna’s draft composition for the "We" mural at the Athletics and Recreation building, Queen's University, can be viewed on her website.

A dance artivist, Angélique Willkie grounds herself in corporeal and decolonial dramaturgies. That work moves her through the structures of Concordia University.

More information about Angélique’s solo performance, Confession Publique, can be found online, as can further details about her role as chair of the President's Task Force on Anti-Black Racism at Concordia.

Songs selected by Angelique and Anna Jane have been added to the Black List, a playlist that compiles songs of sorrow and joy selected by guests on the Black Studies podcast. You can also find more bonus content inspired by our conversations with multidisciplinary artists, activists, curators, musicians, and scholars on Instagram (@blackstudiespodcast) and Linktree (https://linktr.ee/blackstudiespodcast)

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Our conversations with Anna Jane McIntyre, Angélique Willkie, Grégory Pierrot, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Zélie Asava, Tambay A. Obenson, Gavin “Gavsborg” Blair and Isis Semaj-Hall explore: 

•Artmaking and activism that is sensitive, playful, and assertive

•Black Studies within and beyond the university  

•The redemptive power of culture, and the deep lasting pleasures of Black popular culture

•The overthrow of embedded colonial ideas

•The music and cinema of the Black diaspora 

•And much more…

Speakers featured in the trailer: Daniel McNeil, Angélique Willkie, Alanna Stuart, Grégory Pierrot, Jeden Tolentino, Zélie Asava, Toleen Touq

Music featured in the trailer: "Ren Riddim" by pyne

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David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution and editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal is the 2014 winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize. His writing engages the work of C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Hannah Arendt, Walter Rodney, and Linton Kwesi Johnson in relation to politics, poetry and social movements. A former youth worker and community organizer, he has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

Bryan Mukandi is an academic philosopher and health humanities researcher, with a background in the practice of medicine in a resource-poor, sub-Saharan African context. His work is directed towards understanding and addressing the social configurations that improve or worsen the well-being of those served least well by society. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Queensland in Australia, and one of his current research projects is Seeing the Black Child, which seeks to expand, reconfigure and present a more complex understanding of childhood than dominant conceptions of childhood in Australia that take the figure of the white child as paradigmatic.

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David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution and editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal is the 2014 winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize. His writing engages the work of C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Hannah Arendt, Walter Rodney, and Linton Kwesi Johnson in relation to politics, poetry and social movements. A former youth worker and community organizer, he has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

Bryan Mukandi is an academic philosopher and health humanities researcher, with a background in the practice of medicine in a resource-poor, sub-Saharan African context. His work is directed towards understanding and addressing the social configurations that improve or worsen the well-being of those served least well by society. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Queensland in Australia, and one of his current research projects is Seeing the Black Child, which seeks to expand, reconfigure and present a more complex understanding of childhood than dominant conceptions of childhood in Australia that take the figure of the white child as paradigmatic.

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AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist with abiding commitments to Muslim working classes, abolitionist ontologies, popular economies, and ensemble work with music. For decades he has traveled across the world working with various municipalities, research groups and social movements on issues of urban transformation. He is currently a Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the African Center for Cities, University of Cape Town. His Key publications include, For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities, and The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture

Armond R. Towns is an associate professor in Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. His work brings together Black studies, cultural studies, and media philosophy, and his book, On Black Media Philosophy, was published in 2022 by the University of California Press. Dr. Towns is also the cofounder and inaugural editor of the journal, Communication and Race, the newest journal of the National Communication Association (U.S.).

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Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the afterlives of imperialism, in the forms of community, subjectivity and expectation that are produced by violence. She is an award-winning author of books such as Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Exceptional Violence, and Modern Blackness. She is also a co-editor of the volume Globalization and Race (2006), co-director and co-producer of the documentary films Bad Friday, and Four Days in May, and she is the co-curator of a multi-media installation titled Bearing Witness, which opened at the Penn Museum in November 2017. From 2016-2020, she was the Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. Prior to her life as an academic, she was a professional dancer with the New York-based Urban Bush Women.  

Kamari Maxine Clarke is a Distinguished Professor in Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto and an award-winning author who has published nine books and over 50 peer-refereed journal articles and book chapters . For more than twenty years, Professor Clarke has conducted research on issues related to legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She has spent her career exploring theoretical questions concerning culture and power and detailing the relationship between new social formations and contemporary problems, and In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Prize for career excellence. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a technical advisor to the African Union legal counsel.

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Lauren McLeod Cramer is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Lauren is also a founding member of liquid blackness, a research project on blackness and aesthetics and the co-Editor of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies. Her work focuses on the aesthetics of blackness and popular culture, and she is currently writing a book on hip-hop visual culture and black spatial practice.

Nataleah Hunter-Young is a writer, film curator, and Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She is also a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University and an international programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Her doctoral research considers the social and cultural impacts of social media videos documenting anti-Black police brutality through the discursive interpretations of three Black visual artists in Canada, the USA, and South Africa.

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In a fascinating conversation that discusses music and cultural production across time and space, we reflect on our careful listening and study of Black musicians and cultural industries. We pay special attention to creative artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Janet Jackson, Mos Def, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, Luther Vandross, and how they have shared precious resources to help their audiences step audaciously into the past and imagine more promising and fantastic futures. 

Dhanveer Singh Brar is a writer, researcher, and teacher focussing on questions of race, culture, aesthetics, politics and theory from the mid-twentieth century to the present. He has published two books, Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit), published by the 87 Press, and Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century, published by Goldsmiths Press. Dhanveer is also a member of two research and performance projects, “Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective” (with Louis Moreno, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, Fumi Okiji, Paul Rekret and Ronald Rose-Antoinette) and “Lover's Discourse” (with Edward George).

Francesca D’Amico-Cuthbert is a Hip Hop Historian, researcher, consultant and creative. Her research explores the history of Hip Hop culture and Rap music, the creative industries, and histories of anti-Blackness in the music marketplace. Her forthcoming book project, a history of American Hip Hop knowledge production in the era of mass incarceration, outlines how Black rappers constructed complex ethnographies of urban spaces, transformed dispositions of power, and unmasked the modes and mechanisms of a persistent and haunting coloniality in the afterlives of American slavery. Currently, Dr. D’Amico-Cuthbert serves as a researcher on the Fresh, Bold and So Def Hip Hop feminist intervention project, and on the education committee for the Universal Hip Hop Museum (which is set to open in 2024 in the Bronx, New York City).

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Our conversation about Black self-fashioning and collective liberation discusses Tupac, Public Enemy, Nipsey Hussle, Richard Wright, Tricia Rose, Lewis Gordon, Malcolm X, and many other artists, intellectuals and activists. In addition to our discussion about hip hop music and culture, we reflect on house music, policing, mentorship, stand-up comedy and other sites of power, contestation and desire.

Professor Reuben A. Buford May is the Florian Znaniecki Professorial Scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. He is also the author of three books: Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space, the award-winning book Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream (2008) and Talking at Trena’s: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern (2001). He has been a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visiting professor at MIT. May received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and his research focuses on race and culture, urban ethnography, the sociology of sport, and the sociology of the everyday. In addition to his awards, books and other scholarly publications, May has been featured on radio and television and in print media, in particular for his performance as the #rappingprofessor Reginald S. Stuckey. He has performed at venues like Kyle Field, the Chicago House of Blues, Hard Rock Café in Seattle, as well as others in major cities. 

Dr. Dalitso Ruwe holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor of Black Political Thought in the Philosophy Department and Black Studies Program at Queen’s University. His research interests are intellectual history of Africana philosophy, anticolonial theory, Africana legal history, Black male studies, and Black philosophies of education. His recent publications appear in APA Newsletter: The Black Experience, Theory & Event, Teachers College Record and The Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy, Journal of Critical Race Inquiry & Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.

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Dr. Debra Thompson is the Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University and a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race. Deb's teaching and research interests focus on the relationships among race, the state, and inequality in democratic societies. She has taught at the University of Oregon, Northwestern University, Ohio University, and held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard.

Tari Ajadi is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Dalhousie University and a Black Studies Pre-doctoral fellow at Queen’s University. A British-Nigerian immigrant to Canada, Tari aims to produce research that supports and engages with Black communities across the country. He is a co-founder of the Nova Scotia Policing Policy Working Group, a member of the Board of Directors of the Health Association of African Canadians, as well as a Board Member with the East Coast Prison Justice Society.

Topics discussed in this wonderfully generous, caring, and thoughtful conversation include:

• Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census
• The Two Pandemics of Anti-Black Racism and COVID-19
• Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
• Black Life and Livingness
• Black Studies and the University
• Autoethnography and Socially Engaged Research         

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Join Daniel McNeil, Sally El Sayed, Alador Bereketab and global thought leaders each week to explore the connections between the arts, social justice, and decolonial thought.

Inspired by creative and enthusiastic social visions of Black life, livingness and culture, our conversations:

•Consider how we can forge new forms of belonging with time, space and each other

•Explore intellectual work within, beyond and outside the university

•Cultivate interdisciplinary and intergenerational communication

•Engage with the practice of joy in and against sorrow.

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