Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHAP 96 - A Lover’s War - James Baldwin
Episode 133
In "The Fire Next Time" and other writings, the essayist and novelist James Baldwin seeks to dispel the illusions surrounding racial and sexual diffe…
3 years, 9 months ago
HAP 95 - Black and Blue - Ralph Ellison
Episode 132
Ralph Ellison provides a new metaphor for the experience of racism in his Invisible Man and tackles topics of art and identity in his essays.
3 years, 10 months ago
HAP 94 - How Did You Happen? - Richard Wright
Episode 131
Famous for his incendiary novel Native Son, Richard Wright responds in his multifaceted writings to sociology, communism, colonialism, and existentia…
3 years, 10 months ago
HAP 93 - Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones
Episode 130
Interview guest Carole Boyce Davies joins us to talk about the radical ideas of Claudia Jones.
3 years, 11 months ago
HAP 92 - Half the World - Claudia Jones
Episode 129
Claudia Jones argues that Communism provides the remedy for racism and imperialism.
3 years, 11 months ago
HAP 91 - Massa Day Done - Oliver Cox and Eric Williams
Episode 128
Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism t…
4 years ago
HAP 90 - Move Fast and Break Things - C.L.R. James
Episode 127
The Trinidadian historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James applies Marxist analysis to the Haitian Revolution, American cinema, and Shakespeare.
4 years ago
HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier
Episode 126
Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier critiques the Harlem Renaissance and the “black bourgeoisie” for failing to embrace values that will empower black Am…
4 years ago
HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
Episode 125
Negritude thinkers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire embrace surrealism and reflect on the relationships between poetry, knowledge, and identity.
4 years, 1 month ago
HAP 87 - Call It Intuition - Leopold Senghor
Episode 124
Leopold Senghor compares different ways of knowing while developing his theory of Negritude and combining the roles of poet and politician.
4 years, 1 month ago