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About Mickell Carter

Mickell Carter is a doctoral student in the department of Africana Studies at Brown University. She can be reached at mickell_carter@brown.edu and on Twitter @MickellCarter

NBN Episodes hosted by Mickell:

African American Studies April 4, 2023

Rastafari

The Evolution of a People and Their Identity

Charles Price

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished.Charles …
African American Studies February 28, 2023

Respectable

Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man

Saida Grundy

Hosted by Mickell Carter
How does it feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male "problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse …
African American Studies February 8, 2023

Black Women, Black Love

America's War on African-American Marriage

Dianne M. Stewart

Hosted by Mickell Carter
According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage (Seal Press, 2020) reveals …
African American Studies November 25, 2022

New Growth

The Art and Texture of Black Hair

Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Hosted by Mickell Carter
From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair (Duke UP, 2022), Jasmine …
African American Studies November 17, 2022

Emancipation's Daughters

Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body

Riché Richardson

Hosted by Mickell Carter
In Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke UP, 2020), Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives …
African American Studies September 16, 2022

Buy Black

How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture

Aria S. Halliday

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (U Illinois Press, 2022) examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with …
African American Studies August 17, 2022

Black Patience

Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Julius B. Fleming Jr.

Hosted by Mickell Carter
“Freedom, Now!” This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people wait—in the holds of slave ships and on …
African American Studies June 9, 2022

America, Goddam

Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

Treva B. Lindsey

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddam: Violence …
African American Studies May 25, 2022

Academic Apartheid

Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb

Sean J. Drake

Hosted by Mickell Carter
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced …
African American Studies February 7, 2022

Building the Black Arts Movement

Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s

Jonathan Fenderson

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s (U Illinois Press, 2019) explores the history of the Black Arts Movement through the experience of …
African American Studies November 22, 2021

Imagining the Mulatta

Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media

Jasmine Mitchell

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural …