
The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 280 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | EducationArtsBooks | |||

This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate stude... more
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate stude... more
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate stude... more
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate stude... more
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What a gift, even more so now. Thank you to Dr. Drabinski, Dr. Newby, and the amazing Black scholars who insist on speaking with and to each other.
What a gift, even more so now. Thank you to Dr. Drabinski and the amazing Black scholars who insist on speaking with and to each other.
My sister is blessed and guided. 🙏🏽✨🥰
I’ve been waiting a long time for a podcast like this. Great conversations with dope scholars. I hope this pod lasts forever
This is such an important archive for the Black Studies field. I’m not an academic and I don’t work in the humanities or social sciences. But I have found the personal
stories and the approach to the work to be fascinating and illuminating. Plus I’m
Learning new words and new writers :-)
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The conversations center on Black Studies as a field—its origins, methods, and future directions—through scholarly histories, cross-disciplinary practice, and global perspectives. Episodes commonly explore how Black Studies intersects education, diaspora, memory, and culture, with discussions ranging from university politics and resource distribution to community-based pedagogy and political engagement. A standout aspect is the field-wide emphasis on intellectual rigor paired with personal narrative, and guest lineups often fuse academia with editorial, publishing, and public-facing scholarly work. Listeners can expect thoughtful, boundary-crossing dialogue that situates Black Studies within broader social justice and cultural conversations... more
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Recent guests on The Black Studies Podcast include:
1. Shylah Hamilton-Touré
2. W. Lawrence Hogue
3. Laurian Bowles
4. Amanda Boston
5. Skye Jackson
6. Michele Prettyman
7. Andrea Queeley
8. Ronald Angelo Johnson
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