![]() Not just African Americans what our lives are about, what constitutes them historically, culturally, politically over time. All of these kind of different nomenclature are really efforts to capture the ways that the history experiences, culture lives of Black people, African Americans, Black people throughout the diaspora. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Black Studies, African-American Studies, Africana Studies. I'm not being shady there, honestly, like maybe be included. Kai Wright: The term Black Studies has been bandied about broadly enough that I'm not sure that many people using it actually know what ideas it represents. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Thanks for having me. She joins me to talk about this moment, about the power of ideas and about the new magazine, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, thanks so much for taking time. ![]() The field is articulating a set of ideas that some are finding very hard to take in. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is also a professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University.Īs such, her entire field of study is currently under partisan attack, not only in Florida but around the country. That book was a finalist for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and she's just founded a new magazine called Hammer and Hope, dedicated to ideas from and about Black politics and culture. Her 2019 book Race for Profit introduced many readers to the idea of predatory inclusion or the ways in which the financial sector enriches itself by prey upon Black ambitions. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has brought some of those ideas forward herself. Black people in the United States have very often been the bearers of new hard ideas for everybody. New ideas that are of consequence are often hard. The sky is blue and the earth is flat until someone points out that it is in fact not. They call into question things we hold dear or that make us feel comfortable, or they just seem obvious. They challenge us and not just intellectually. Here's the thing about new ideas, the best ones, the most consequential ones they are often hard to take in. Speaker: Yesterday during class, we were having a discussion about the systems right now that are direct consequence of racist policies from 200, 300 years ago. I realized that was such an invalidating opinion of HBCUs. It wasn't until my best friend sat me down. I wanted to go to Howard straight out of high school, but everybody was pushing me to go to a PWI. Speaker: I'm actually a transfer student. If you're not pouring into yourself, you can't help your community or the people around you. That self-care doesn't mean that you are lazy, but it's rather productivity. Speaker: In class last week, my professor was discussing the idea of radical self-care as introduced by Audrey Lorde. Regina de Heer: We're here on the campus of Howard University, and we're asking people when was the last time you learned a new idea that challenged the way you see yourself or the world around you?
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