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:

Charles Price, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)

April 4, 2023

Rastafari

Charles Price
Hosted by Mickell Carter

Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, the…

Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)

February 28, 2023

Respectable

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 …

Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)

February 8, 2023

Black Women, Black Love

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-…

Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair" (Duke UP, 2022)

November 25, 2022

New Growth

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 Bla…

Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)

November 17, 2022

Emancipation's Daughters

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…

Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

September 16, 2022

Buy Black

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 th…

Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)

August 17, 2022

Black Patience

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 wai…

Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)

June 9, 2022

America, Goddam

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 …

Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)

May 25, 2022

Academic Apartheid

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 l…

Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)

February 7, 2022

Building the Black Arts Movement

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 M…

Jasmine Mitchell, "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

November 22, 2021

Imagining the Mulatta

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…