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Episode 14: The Conservative Era: From Reagan to the Age of Obama (Introduction) 284

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Episode 01: What is Black Studies? PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode, we look at the origins of a relatively new academic discipline. How did Black Studies come about and how is it distinct from other academic disciplines? Also, what are the challenges faced by scholars, academics and students of Black Studies in higher education?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 02: Why Pursue Black Studies? PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode, why pursue Black Studies? What is the significance of Black Studies in higher education? How has the Black Studies pioneered and developed theories and approaches to problems in ways that have added to academia and society as a whole? Is Black Studies solely for the consumption of Black students? Why should Asian, Latino, or White students have an interest in pursuing Black Studies? Play all 1 video Play all(1)
Episode 03: Africa in Historical Context PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode, we look at Africa in historical context and the events leading up to the Atlantic slave trade. What does an alternative context look like? We will explore rise and fall of powerful and wealthy African kingdoms as well as the fateful path they took that ultimately led to the Atlantic slave trade -the trafficking of millions of human beings from West Africa to the Americas.  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 04: Slavery in Black and White PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. VIEW THIS ENTIRE EPISODE AT http://www.africanelements.org In this episode, Slavery in Black and White: The Development of Race Based Slavery in the British North American Colonies. While slavery is nothing new in human history, the phenomenon of race based slavery is radical transformation from slavery as it had been practiced up to the point of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Given that the British colonizers conquered many different peoples, and had a general distain for each of their conquered subjects, how then did it come to be that Africans got tagged with slave? In this episode, we will see how and why this transformation takes place.  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 05: Healing as Resistance PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. VIEW THIS ENTIRE EPISODE AT http://www.africanelements.org The middle passage subjected enslaved Africans to an unimaginable ordeal. Between Africa, the trans-Atlantic voyage, sale in the Americas and the 2 year "seasoning" period of adjustment in the Western Hemisphere, an estimated 35 to 80 percent of Africans who left the continent perished. To be sure, however, many survived. How did they survive? They left Africa with a set of survival strategies based on life in West Africa, but how were African modes of survival useful in a completely new setting some 2000 miles away? In this episode, we look at some of the elements of African culture in the western hemisphere and healing traditions that helped Africans to survive the ordeal of enslavement.  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 06: African American Frontiers (Part 1) PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode, The African American Frontier: Africa and the Atlantic World. In part 1 of the series on the African American frontier, we examine the significance of Africans on the American frontier focusing in the Atlantic Slave Trade. We'll start by defining (or redefining) the meaning of the frontier, and we will see a firsthand account of the middle passage. Lastly, we look at the impact of the Middle Passage on both sides of the Atlantic. How did the meeting of east and west transform the African continent? What impact did American frontier have on Africans who were transported there?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 07: African American Frontiers (Part 2) PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. VIEW THIS ENTIRE EPISODE AT http://www.africanelements.org In this episode, African American Frontiers (Part 2): Africans in the Spanish and English territories of the Americas. How was life on the frontier different for African Americans? How do those differences translate to both danger and opportunity for persons of African descent in the Spanish and English American territories? What role did Africans play in shaping what was to become the American frontier?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 08: Did The Civil War End Slavery? PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. VIEW THIS ENTIRE EPISODE AT http://www.africanelements.org In this episode, we will assess fruits of that struggle. What did "freedom" mean for former slaves? How did black women fare in the period of reconstruction? Finally, how did the reality of emancipation stack up against the aspirations of African Americans who fought and sacrificed during the Civil War?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 09: The Unfinished Revolution? PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode we examine different perspectives on the success and failure of Reconstruction and hear the voices of African Americans themselves articulating the Reconstruction agenda in their own words. We look at the African American responses to the Reconstruction by seeking out opportunities on the United States frontier. Finally, we examine the ideological responses that frame the continued struggle to finish an unfinished revolution.  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 10: Unity In Diversity? (Part 1) PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode we will explore the political and social climate up to 1920s that is going to shape the boundaries of African Americans? ideological responses to the failure of Reconstruction. In what political and social climate is it possible to agitate for Civil Rights? Under what circumstances would it make more sense to push for Black Nationalism and racial separatism?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 11: Unity in Diversity (Part 2) PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. More at www.africanelements.org In part two, we will explore more of the ideological approaches to the approach to problems are confronting in the 1920s and 1930s. Like integrationist and Black nationalist approaches, ethnic Europeans are going to introduce their own philosophies to African Americans that are each going to have their own set of strengths and weaknesses. As we also see, they carry with them their own built in conflicts with other philosophical approaches.  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 12: Unity in Diversity? (Part 3) PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. More at www.africanelements.org In this episode, we look at the various often conflicting elements of black nationalism in the struggle for black liberation and self determination. Is conflict between black nationalist organizations and civil rights organizations inevitable? How might it be possible for different organizations to form a united front while holding a variety of views on exercising black nationalism? Can there be unity in diversity?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 13: Race vs. Gender PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode, we look at the social construct of patriarchal masculinity as it is expressed in the Black liberation struggle. We will start with the critical question posed by the brilliant scholar and social critic, bell hooks. We will then take a look at some specific controversies vis-?-vis gender and homophobia. Has homophobia and femiphobia (fear of women) hurt the Black Liberation struggle?  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Episode 14: The Conservative Era PLEASE NOTE: Due to Google's unfair and exploitative Adsense policies, I am redirecting all traffic to my website, http://www.africanelements.org<wbr>. All episides are freely available there including sharing and embed code options. I regret any inconvenience this may have caused to my subscribers. In this episode, The Conservative Era: From Reagan to the Age of Obama. The late 1970s and 1980s brought about a shift in American attitudes towards race and civil rights. In this episode we will see how the neoconservative movement was able to simultaneously embrace the ideals of the old civil rights movement and leaders such as Martin Luther King, while at the same time undermining the systemic changes that the civil rights movement fought for.  Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
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