Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHAP 86 - French Connection - The Negritude Movement
Episode 123
Our first look at the emergence of the Negritude movement in Paris in the 1930s, with a focus on the early leadership of the Nardal sisters and Leon …
4 years, 2 months ago
HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science
Episode 122
Guest Liam Kofi Bright discusses Du Bois' ideal of value-free science and the place of science within his wider thought.
4 years, 2 months ago
HAP 84 - Live Long and Protest - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963
Episode 121
Du Bois moves to the left, and revisits and refines older positions during the latter half of his very long life.
4 years, 3 months ago
HAP 83 - Songs of the People - Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual
Episode 120
The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance.
4 years, 3 months ago
HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston
Episode 119
Zora Neale Hurston’s interest in Africana folklore feeds into her great novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
4 years, 4 months ago
HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson
Episode 118
Pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson argues for a new approach to education and economic uplift.
4 years, 5 months ago
HAP 80 - Scholarly Contributions - African American Professional Philosophers
Episode 117
From the latter half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, African Americans only rarely obtain jobs as philosophy professors but bring distinctive…
4 years, 5 months ago
HAP 79 - Leonard Harris on Alain Locke
Episode 116
Leonard Harris explains how Locke's value theory was the basis for his aesthetics and theories of democracy and race.
4 years, 6 months ago
HAP 78 - Freedom Through Art - Alain Locke
Episode 115
The aesthetics of Alain Locke and its basis in his theory of value judgments.
4 years, 6 months ago
HAP 77 - A Race Capital - The Harlem Renaissance
Episode 114
The artistic flowering of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance raises important questions about identity and the purpose of art.
4 years, 7 months ago