Talks With Tyran Podcast: Arts, Culture, History: Recent Episodes
Talks With Tyran
A podcast channel dedicated to the examination of art, culture, and history through the lens of the African Diaspora.
A re-release of a previously removed episode, concerning a candid discussion regarding a military unit consisting entirely of forcibly conscripted Black Moroccans that existed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in the Sultanate of Morocco.
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An examination of cultural integration, a concept regarding the intercultural exchanges between different groups of people inside a society, and what this means in both a Black American and African Diasporic context.
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An examination of Juneteenth, an American holiday commemorating the freeing of enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas in June 1865, and how the holiday can be utilized by Black Americans as a representation of the beginning of cultural sovereignty when cross-examined with former colonial spaces in the African Diaspora.
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An examination of homophobia in Africa, the Caribbean, and other spaces of the African Diaspora and how British colonization played a role in the manifestation of anti-LGBTQ laws and sentiments in these societies.
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A departure from the usual episode format, in the form of a candid discussion regarding myths and notions Black Americans form about the nature of their identity formation in the United States. In this, ideas and rationale regarding the African Diaspora and anti-Blackness are explored and established.
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A discussion of noirism, a Haitian cultural and intellectual consciousness ideological movement that arose out of the American Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934), and how its original purpose can still serve Haitians in the modern period.
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An examination of the Kingdom of Hayti, a nation-state and kingdom that existed in the northern half of the island nation of Haiti from 1811 to 1820, and how the creation of a Black nation in the Americas signified a landmark achievement in the Age of Revolutions.
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An analysis of Tonton Macoute, an evil spirit of Haitian mythology and folklore known for kidnapping people using a large sack, and how its presence has been used as a weaponization of fear in Haitian society for generations.
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A candid, frank discussion of the Jaysh al-Bukhari, an army of enslaved, conscripted Black Moroccans that existed from the late 17th to early 20th centuries, and how its existence led to the solidification of anti-Blackness in Morocco.
An examination of Rastafarianism, an African Diasporic religious and sociocultural movement with its origins in the nation of Jamaica, and how this was used in the ideological conflict against British colonialism.
An examination of the Kingdom of Jolof, an Islamic West African kingdom founded by the Wolof people of Senegal that existed from 1350 to 1875.
An examination and discussion of Créolité, a cultural movement present within French-speaking countries of the Caribbean, and how its manifestation in the island nation of Haiti influenced both Haitian society and the larger Caribbean.
An examination of Afroargentinidad, a cultural phenomenon and movement of Afro-Argentines in the nation of Argentina, and how Afro-Argentine women have been the foremost proponents of challenging the national mythos of Argentina as a "white" nation.
An examination of uli, an art form practiced by the women of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, and how it has influenced and continues to influence identity and artistic movements across multiple societies.
An examination of the ideology of Womanism, a Black Feminist academic and activist movement with its origins in Second and Third Wave feminism after the American Civil Rights Movement.
An episode chronicling the events of the Triunvirato Rebellion, an uprising of enslaved Afro-Cubans in the Matanzas region of Cuba in 1843 led by the Yoruba woman Carlota Lucumi, and what this means concerning the agency of Black women and their contributions to revolution in the African Diaspora.
The fourth and final episode of a four-part series detailing the cultural and social impact of Black Americans, and contrasting it with the experience of Black people in American society.
In this episode, the idea of what constitutes Black American culture is examined and explored. Through this, the understanding of how Black American culture can proliferate and be globally impactful despite the social conditions of Black Americans is reached.
The third episode of a four-part series detailing the cultural and social impact of Black Americans, and contrasting it with the experience of Black people in American society.
In this episode, the impact and sociocultural effects of Black American art and artistry is discussed, with forms ranging from poetry to sculpture and painting being explored. This leads to an examination of what artistic interpretation truly is, and how the cultural biases and perspectives can shape these interpretations.
The second episode of a four-part series detailing the cultural and social impact of Black Americans, and contrasting it with the experience of Black people in American society.
In this episode, the history of Black Americans in the United States is explored using the framework of Black Americanism, in an effort to reclaim historical narratives and perspectives for Black people in a way that allows the reclaiming of personal histories.
The first episode of a four-part series detailing the cultural and social impact of Black Americans, and contrasting it with the experience of Black people in American society.
In this episode, ideas and concepts related to Black Americanism are explored, primarily detailing its origins, what it constitutes and what this means for Black Americans and Americans in general.
An examination of the Janjira Vizierate, an Islamic princedom founded in India by Ethiopian and Swahili peoples in the 15th century, and what this means regarding representation and incorporation in the African Diaspora.
An analysis of The Women's War, a conflict taking place in late 1929 and early 1930 primarily between the women of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria and the colonial administrative forces of the British Empire.
An examination of the Afro-Cuban religion of Regla Lucumí (also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla de Oricha, and Santería) and its historical as well as sociocultural impact, both in Cuba and globally.
An analysis of the Kingdom of Kôngo, a Central African nation-state and kingdom that existed in modern-day Angola from 1390 to 1914.
An examination of three West African December festivals- Fiok (Ghana, Bulsa People), Ngondo (Cameroon, Sawa People), and Igue (Nigeria, Edo People)- and the cultural significance of each individual festival to their respective ethnic groups.
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An examination of the concepts of racial and ethnic composition in Brazil during the colonial, imperial, and modern periods, and how this ties in to both Brazilian national identity and the Black experience in the country.
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An analysis of the conflict between the precolonial West African nation-states of Oyo and Dahomey between 1682 and 1748, as well as its sociopolitical, economic and global effects.
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A discussion of the ideology of Pan-Africanism, its origins and its impact on the process of decolonization, self-determination and the building of solidarity across the African Diaspora.
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A discussion of the ideology known as Négritude, a Black anti-colonial self-determination and consciousness movement with its origins in the Caribbean island of Martinique and the European nation of France in the 1930's.
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An examination of the importance, impact, and history of the Benin Bronzes, a set of bronze sculptures and statuettes built during the existence of the Kingdom of Benin in modern-day southern Nigeria.
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A discussion of the Malê Rebellion of 1835, a slave revolt involving enslaved Yoruba and Hausa Muslims of modern-day Nigeria in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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An examination and analysis of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, artistic and intellectual awakening of Black people living in the United States that took place during the 1920's and 1930's.
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An examination of the masking traditions of three major ethnic groups of the West African nation of Mali- the Dogon, the Bambara, and the Mandinka- and how these tie in to the cultural practices and histories of each group.
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An analysis of the ideology known as "revolutionary suicide," the philosophical tenets defined by Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party, and how they can be used by Black people to determine the true sentiments amongst those considered to be "allies."
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An exploration of Black Classical composers from the Enlightenment to the mid-20th century, and how this connects to the lack of both knowledge and pride in the cultural achievements of the African Diaspora.
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An analysis and discussion regarding the painting Aspiration by Black American artist Aaron Douglass and its relationship to the Harlem Renaissance, The Great Migration and Black culture as a whole.
An analyzation of the ideologies of both Black Nationalism and Black Power, a discussion of their histories and how they can be used to fight white supremacy.
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