S E1286: In Class with Carr, Ep. 286: Labors of Love!
In the US Social Structure, Labor Day weekend is both a ritual of Summer’s ending and a potential lens for examining how labor, Cultural Meaning-Making and love in Africana Ways of Knowing fuel the Mo...
1 Sep 20251h 47min
S E1285: In Class with Carr, Ep. 285: Black to School
The formal academic school year is underway in most places in a United States facing accelerated fascist overtures from elements in federal and state governments. Memories of Anti-Black state action e...
25 Aug 20251h 50min
S E1284: In Class with Carr, Ep. 284: Foundational Blackness
In the United States, the back-to-school season signals more than just a return to “traditional” classrooms—in a moment of open white nationalist warfare on our common humanity, it is also a moment fo...
18 Aug 20251h 35min
S E1283: In Class with Carr, Episode 283: "Why Not Call it Mdw Ntr?”
Our Annual Nile Valley study tour continues the process of strengthening the work of Africana Studies as a tool for jailbreaking the university and renewing deeper traditions of community-centered edu...
11 Aug 20251h 14min
S E1282: In Class with Carr, Ep. 282: Nations Within Nations
Can we live together? We must. This week’s funeral of Officer Didarul Islam in New York City, where leaders honored his immigrant journey and anchoring cultural identities, place current global tensio...
4 Aug 20251h 20min
S E1281: In Class with Carr, Ep. 281: Referendum on America
The weaponization of the judiciary, cultural institutions, and federal agencies threatens deeper fissures. As demographic shifts challenge already fragile power hierarchies in places like Texas, the ...
30 Juli 20252h 1min
S E1280: In Class with Carr, Ep. 280: “There Ain’t No Such Thing as Superman!”
The Cultural Meaning Making trope of Superman, especially as a trope used in US white nationalism, serves as a point of entry to consider power, collective identity and belief in the US Social Structu...
29 Juli 20251h 48min
S E1279: In Class with Carr, Ep. 279: "I Respectfully Dissent!"
In the 2025 Supreme Court term, Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson authored more dissents than any of her colleagues, offering a searing critique of expanding executive power and the erosion of cons...
28 Juli 20251h 41min
