The Death of Black Nationalist Culture? - LIVE Shorts

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Making Sense of Black Nationalism in the Obama Era, with TA-NEHISI COATES, BAZ DREISINGER, PENIEL E. JOSEPH and VICTOR LAVALLE.

This discussion took place on April 9, 2009.

With an African-American president in the White House—and the first black chairman voted to head the Republican National Committee—has black nationalism become irrelevant? Novelist Victor Lavalle explores the personal and political valences of the nationalist idea, and makes a case for embracing a more ecumenical view of black experience—including the freedom to move beyond traditional conceptions of blackness. Baz Dreisinger, author of Near Black: White to Black Passing in American Culture; Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America; and Atlantic Monthly contributing editor Ta-Nehisi Coates respond.


Filming & Editing: The A/V Gang
Audio: One Dream Sound

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• race
• white supremacy
• integration
• segregation
• democracy
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• Ta-Nehisi Coats
• Baz Dresinger
• Peniel Joseph
• Victor Lavalle
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[Kashmereair]

A white man leading a conversation on Black Nationalism...I have seen it all.

[bolekaja1]

This is to be expected within a psychopathic/sociopathic euro-paradigm. No surprise here... unfortunately.

[lolumad82]

@Kashmereair He's just all the other white people trying to profit off of black people. Black people need to get organize fast or we're all gonna go die. Because as a black person you cannot trust anyone, and i mean "anyone".

[oneindachamber]

That kid wishing for straight hair must be lost. DOes he know that the probably the most referred to Guitarist ever, Jimi Hendrix, had some African descent in him. I bet some of his straight hair friends look up to Jimi. Common have some pride in your race.

[LoneLee33andathird]

Who says it's dead...or do certain factions want it dead more than anything?

[NkrumahTure]

I concur.

[usnate1]

Its too bad they didn't have a poem from a white kid who grew up in black society. I wasn't excepted 100% by them either. I still have true friends mind you who are black..but the looks you get and how you are treated...its a human shortcoming...not a white shortcoming. I came from the gutter, got a degree, and now I'm a Physical Therapist...the diff between the two cultures...you're not called a sell out by whites if you go to Harlem.Race is the DUMBEST reason to disapprove of someone. Unlearn.

[MultiSmartass1]

The problem with Black Nationalism is that is organizes around skin color not culture.

So-called Black people in this country have a vested interest being Black Americans but not in African tribes and different national cultures.

Until black people in this nation come to an understanding of their African roots, they will continue to be "black people"-rootless, disconnected, lost in non-identity of being a so-called American.

[thesplendid1]

This is a Joke?

[Soulblackman]

Wait. It'll get much worse.

[madeofluv]

Oh Gawd.

No..just no.