Black Memory Work: Recent Episodes
Geoff Ward
Black Memory Work is a podcast supplementing the senior seminar and capstone in African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. The podcast was created to support the seminar as we became displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing a creative, asynchronous, and virtual space to develop and share ideas.
In this episode Nya Hardaway and Avery Jones discuss their projects on both the misrepresentation and constructive role of "black rage." This concept has been explored in depth in black psychology, law, political commentaries, music and elsewhere. Yet, as Hardaway and Jones note, the moral legitimacy and social benefits of black rage continue to be misunderstood and denied in twenty-first century political culture, especially in the case of the "angry black woman" stereotype. They counter these misrepresentations of black anger by embracing its contributions.
Black Memory Work is a podcast supplementing the senior seminar and capstone in African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. The podcast was created to support the seminar as we became displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing a creative, asynchronous, and virtual space to develop and share ideas.
Photo by Quote Catalog.com, quote by James Baldwin.
Amanda Everett returns for a more in-depth discussion of her project (featured on Episode 1), sharing insights on everyday impacts of black cultural memory, and the inter-generational imperative of black memory work.
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In this episode we speak with Hassan Folks about his comparative historical work on the impact of COVID-19 and other pandemics in African American community contexts, the enduring need for a robust commitment to equal protection in health care, and strategies for achieving this.
Black Memory Work is a podcast supplementing the senior seminar and capstone in African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. The podcast was created to support the seminar as we became displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing a creative, asynchronous, and virtual space to develop and share ideas.
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In this episode of Black Memory Work we speak with Asheley Ashittey about her seminar project exploring historically fluid gender constructs among the Ga ethnic group based predominantly in Accra, Ghana, and with Brianna Meyer about her project examining and disrupting social determinants of skin lightening practices among Senegalese women today.
Black Memory Work is a podcast supplementing the senior seminar and capstone in African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. The podcast was created to support the seminar as we became displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing a creative, asynchronous, and virtual space to develop and share ideas.
Cover art by Ebony G. Patterson
In our first episode of the Black Memory Work Podcast, Amanda Everett discusses her literary research on the circumstances of black motherhood, and the novel as a site of black memory work, and Da'Viona Sims discusses her study of student and faculty experiences in African American Studies courses in K-12 schools in St. Louis, and the case for collaboration in black studies across primary, secondary and tertiary school systems.
Black Memory Work is a podcast supplementing the senior seminar and capstone in African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. The podcast was created to support the seminar as we became displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing a creative, asynchronous, and virtual space to develop and share ideas.
Cover photo by Seven Shooter on Unsplash
An experimental podcast co-hosted and hastily produced by Professors Geoff Ward and Jeffrey McCune to continue and (asynchronously adapt) the AFAS Senior Seminar and Capstone amid the disruption of our present pandemic. Podcast episodes will patch together reflections on issues of the day, ideas and endeavors we remain engaged with - particularly around this semester's theme of Black Memory Work - and developments in senior seminar projects, with cameo appearances by seminar participants and other special guests.