Jonardon Ganeri Podcasts

Negritude thinkers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire embrace surrealism and reflect on the relationships between poetry, knowledge, and identity.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Leopold Senghor compares different ways of knowing while developing his theory of Negritude and combining the roles of poet and politician.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

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 Damas.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Guest Liam Kofi Bright discusses Du Bois' ideal of value-free science and the place of science within his wider thought.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Du Bois moves to the left, and revisits and refines older positions during the latter half of his very long life.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Zora Neale Hurston’s interest in Africana folklore feeds into her great novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson argues for a new approach to education and economic uplift.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

From the latter half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, African Americans only rarely obtain jobs as philosophy professors but bring distinctive perspectives to the profession.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Leonard Harris explains how Locke's value theory was the basis for his aesthetics and theories of democracy and race.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

The aesthetics of Alain Locke and its basis in his theory of value judgments.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

The artistic flowering of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance raises important questions about identity and the purpose of art.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

An interview with Michael Dawson, who explains Marcus Garvey's black nationalism and how this and other political ideologies, like socialism and liberalism, have fared from the time of Garvey down to the present day.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Marcus Garvey’s two wives, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey, establish themselves as activists in their own right and bring feminism into the Pan-African movement.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Marcus Garvey leads a powerful movement, inspires racial pride, and feuds with other thinkers like Du Bois.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Vanessa Wills speaks to us about Marx and his Africana legacy, with a special focus on black women Marxists.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Around the time of World War One, Hubert Harrison, A. Philip Randolph, and other black socialists argue that racial oppression is caused by capitalism.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

West African intellectuals like J.E. Casely-Hayford and Mojola Agbebi build upon Edward Blyden’s ideas at the dawn of the twentieth century.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

We chat with Tommy Curry about African-American thought between the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

The ANA unites leading African American scholars of the early 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ferris, Archibald Grimké, and Kelly Miller.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

By exploring the work and activities of W.E.B. Du Bois around the turn of the twentieth century, we introduce some of the themes of our coverage of that century.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Co-host Chike joins Peter to look back at series 2 and ahead to series 3.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

W.E.B. Du Bois emerges as a historian, sociologist, and innovative philosophical thinker in the 1890s, and introduces his famous idea of "double consciousness."By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Was Booker T. Washington’s “accomodationist” approach to race relations a failure to stand up to injustice or a cunning strategy for incremental change?By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

A late 19th-century churchman tries to explain how slavery fit into God’s plan, and decide whether the future for African-Americans lies in Africa or America.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers